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University of Miami's course descriptions average 62.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Miami reads 4.7 points further right.

Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
University of Miami: 62.9 (likely range 60.8 to 64.9) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100
5%Left75–91
79%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
39 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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

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APY 696 · Advanced & Graduate Colloquy in Black Feminist Theory and Praxis: Major of 7 Black Feminist Thinkers79

Anthropology

Black feminist theory, produced primarily by Black women scholars, artist and activists, throughout the diaspora, constitutes a distinctive and influential body of politics and thought. Black feminist's uninvited interventions in Black…

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POL 538 · Education Politics and Policy75

Political Science

Explores education politics and policy in the United States. We begin with an examination of justice-oriented pedagogies (e.g., Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, bell hook's Teaching to Transgress) to establish the norms for the course.…

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PHI 236 · Feminist Philosophy72

Philosophy

This course is an introduction to issues in feminist philosophy, including its critique of Western philosophy and its contributions to major areas of philosophy such as ethics, social philosophy, theories of human nature, and theories of…

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Furthest right

POL 214 · Criminal Justice and Social Change38

Political Science

The social impact of crime as a form of domestic terrorism, the police and courts as a deterrent, and incarceration as an attempt to prevent and punish violent social behavior. This course is only open to high school students participating…

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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 60.8 to 64.9; 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 Miami by department (share of courses described from the left)
DepartmentLeft-framed shareCourses
Women's & Gender Studies23.8%21view
Sociology7.6%92view
Religious Studies4.7%107view
Political Science3.0%230view
Anthropology2.9%70view
History2.5%157view
Ethnic & African American Studies2.2%45view
Philosophy2.0%102view
English & Comparative Literature1.8%163view
Psychology0.8%119view
Art & Art History0.8%132view
Economics0%65view

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Miamimean_bias_score62.960.8 – 64.91,30339
All 100 schoolsmean_bias_score67.567.4 – 67.7124,29010,124
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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