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University of Illinois-Chicago · Anthropology

4.8% of University of Illinois-Chicago's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of Illinois-Chicago: 4.8% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

33%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

33%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

6 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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Framing Subject

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

ANTH 248 · Afro Asian Solidarities75

Anthropology

An exploration of the radical possibilities of transnational alliances and the long history of cross-racial solidarities between Asia and Africa, Asians and Africans, both globally and in the U.S. Course Information: Same as GLAS 248 and…

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ANTH 479 · Culture and Colonialism in South Asia75

Anthropology

Examines the emergence of colonial cultures of domination and resistance on the Indian subcontinent from the eighteenth century to 1947. Course Information: Same as GLAS 479 and HIST 479. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

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ANTH 201 · Asian Markets, Corporations, and Social Justice72

Anthropology

A critical analysis of multinational corporations as social institutions and their commodification and representation of Asian and Asian American cultures and economies. Includes topics like KPop, fair trade, sweatshops, and the beauty industry. Course Information: Same as

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 219 · Anthropology of Globalization40

Anthropology

Explores capitalism as a culture, its origins, and the problems of consumer culture in the U.S. and the world. Course Information: Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101; or consent of the instructor. World Cultures course.

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ANTH 273 · Ethnography of Southeast Asia40

Anthropology

Survey of selected cultures of mainland Southeast Asia, with emphasis on cultural ecology, tribal formation, and nationalism. Course Information: Same as GEOG 273. Individual and Society course, and World Cultures course.

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Illinois-Chicago · Anthropology	bias_left_share	4.8	—	63	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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