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University of Houston · Religious Studies

2.5% of University of Houston's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

0%25%
University of Houston: 2.5% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
2 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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FramingSubject

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.

Furthest-left subjects

RELS 3337 · Theologies from the Margins83

Religious Studies

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 . Description Emphasizes a comparative study of liberation theologies with a focus on Christianity in the United States and on gender, race, and sexuality. Repeatability: NAdditional Fee: N

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RELS 3371 · Women in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament72

Religious Studies

3.0Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: None. Description Study of female characters and voices in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), about the places in the Bible where we would expect to hear women’s voices but only…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Houston Religious Studies has 2 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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 Houston · Religious Studiesbias_left_share2.5—40—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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