History
The extraordinary proliferation of communist states in the twentieth century has few historical parallels, and few people anywhere remained indifferent to communism’s utopian idea. What was communism? How did it move untold millions…
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University of Georgia
University of Georgia's course descriptions average 64.7 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Georgia reads 2.9 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
2%Far left92–100
36%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
<1%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
3%Far right0–8
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
History
This course on Marx covers five issues: revolutions, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, industrial and monopoly capitalism, women and capitalism, and contemporary capitalism. Includes extensive readings from Marx and Engels along with selections from later Marxists.
Anthropology
Course introduces students to anthropological approaches to explore Communism. Students learn how Communist ideologists theorized, leaders implemented, and people experienced various aspects of life during the Communist era. Students will…
Furthest-right subjects
History
A history of racism exploring the ideology’s association with slavery and other forms of oppression. Examination of ethnic and racial representations in ancient Greek, Roman, and Judaic texts, then the medieval and modern periods, ending…
History
Exploration of the ways in which American slavery has been conveyed in American popular culture through the juxtaposition of scholarly work, novels and short stories, and film, ranging from the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, William…
History
The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945, emphasizing historical precedents and consequences. Traditional religious anti-Semitism, biologically-based racism, and extreme nationalism will be investigated as sources of modern genocidal behavior.
Why this number, in plain words
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 62.8 to 66.6; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
University of Georgia by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 14.6% | 41 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 11.1% | 27 | view |
| Sociology | 8.5% | 130 | view |
| Anthropology | 5.7% | 122 | view |
| History | 4.6% | 175 | view |
| Psychology | 1.1% | 95 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 249 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 68 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 244 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 59 | view |
| Political Science | 0% | 112 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 123 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Georgia | mean_bias_score | 64.7 | 62.8 – 66.6 | 1,445 | 36 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |
- Formula
- SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
- Interval
- normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.
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