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University of Chicago · Anthropology

31.6% of University of Chicago's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

0%45%
University of Chicago: 31.6% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

7%Far left92–100
17%Left75–91
72%Center-left59–74
4%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
54 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ANTH 20401 · Anthropology of Healing94

Anthropology

In our world marked by pandemics, stress, chronic illness, and cancers, healing is a primary concern, with people around the world experimenting with disparate techniques, from psychotherapy to psychedelics, to energy therapies and others.…

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ANTH 29030 · Islam, Race and Decoloniality94

Anthropology

This course explores western perspectives, attitudes and representations of Muslims and Islam from medieval European thought, through liberal colonial encounters to contemporary media and political discourses. Students will examine the…

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ANTH 22733 · Marxism, Anarchism, and the Black Radical Tradition93

Anthropology

This course serves as an introduction to Black Radical Tradition as an insurgent political formation and intellectual practice. While many genealogies of Black Studies depart from the formal institutionalization of Black Studies departments…

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Furthest right

None. University of Chicago Anthropology has 54 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Chicago · Anthropologybias_left_share31.6—171—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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