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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's course descriptions average 65 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill reads 2.5 points further right.

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

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: 65 (likely range 63.6 to 66.4) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

10%Left75–91

84%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

61 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.

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RELI 415 · Teaching the Bible in Public Education77

Religious Studies

This course explores the challenges, ethical questions, and opportunities inherent in teaching biblical literature within public educational settings--both secondary and higher-ed. It also equips students to make informed decisions on how…

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AAAD 360 · Black Women's Struggles and Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean75

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course surveys Black women's experiences living with and confronting state oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. Black women experience similar patterns of political, social, and economic inequality in the region.…

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HIST 343H · Empire, Race, and Resistance75

History

This course introduces students to the history of empire, the role of race in creating and sustaining it, and the ways that people have resisted the imposition of outsider control. It will also introduce students to the methods historians use to understand the past.

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Furthest right

None. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has 61 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 63.6 to 66.4; 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 North Carolina-Chapel Hill by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	24%	50	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	9.2%	98	view
Anthropology	6.0%	251	view
Sociology	2.8%	107	view
History	2.1%	330	view
Religious Studies	1.9%	206	view
Art & Art History	1.7%	175	view
Philosophy	1.6%	126	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.0%	389	view
Economics	0.9%	111	view
Political Science	0.5%	202	view
Psychology	0%	154	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 North Carolina-Chapel Hill	mean_bias_score	65	63.6 – 66.4	2,199	61
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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