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University of Minnesota · Women's & Gender Studies

33.8% of University of Minnesota's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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University of Minnesota: 33.8% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

10%Far left92–100

79%Left75–91

10%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

39 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

GWSS 3215 · Bodies That Matter: Feminist Approaches to Disability Studies96

Women's & Gender Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic has made questions of disability and ableism central and visible for all of us as never before. Dis/ability is not a physical or mental defect but a form of social meaning mapped to certain bodies in larger systems of…

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GWSS 8111 · Transnational Feminist Theories93

Women's & Gender Studies

This course takes a transnational feminist approach to studies of gender, sexuality, and feminist theories, methods, & praxis in order to highlight linkages and relations of power between sociocultural, political, economic, and affective…

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GWSS 5104 · Transnational Feminist Theory92

Women's & Gender Studies

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Minnesota Women's & Gender Studies has 39 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Minnesota · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	33.8	—	65	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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