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University of Houston's course descriptions average 63.1 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Houston reads 4.4 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

University of Houston: 63.1 (likely range 61.9 to 64.3) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

94%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

33 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

AAMS 3330 · The Vietnamese American Experience72

Ethnic & African American Studies

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: Completed 6 hours core communication. Description This course introduces students to the making and transformation of the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States since the early…

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AAMS 3345 · Asian-African American Relations72

Ethnic & African American Studies

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: Completed 6 hours core communication. Description This course examines the history of Asian-Black racial solidarity and social struggles in the United States. Students will learn…

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ANTH 6363 · Race, Racialization, and the Politics of Culture70

Anthropology

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Anthropology or permission of instructor. This course will seek to situate constructions of “cultural” and “biological” difference in the context of social…

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Furthest right

None. University of Houston has 33 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 61.9 to 64.3; 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 Houston by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	35.7%	14	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	14%	50	view
Sociology	8.3%	84	view
Anthropology	4.1%	97	view
History	3.6%	220	view
Religious Studies	2.5%	40	view
Psychology	0.6%	176	view
Art & Art History	0%	202	view
Economics	0%	114	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	204	view
Philosophy	0%	54	view
Political Science	0%	159	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 Houston	mean_bias_score	63.1	61.9 – 64.3	1,414	33
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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