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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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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

3%Far left92–100

37%Left75–91

40%Center-left59–74

10%Center42–58

<1%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

5%Far right0–8

230 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

AAAD 282 · Afropessimism in American and European Film100

Ethnic & African American Studies

Scholars of Afropessimism argue that we are not living in the age of post-slavery, but in the "afterlife of slavery" and that Blacks exist outside of the world, because the social world is held together by anti-Blackness. This argumentation…

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ANTH 449 · Anthropology and Marxism100

Anthropology

Critical study of Marx' mature social theory and its relationship to contemporary anthropology.

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ECON 968 · Seminar in Soviet Economics100

Economics

Permission of the instructor. Studies of selected problems of the Soviet economy and related aspects of Soviet economic thought. Seminar members are expected to present reports on assigned research topics.

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 370 · Southern Legacies: The Descendants Project0

Anthropology

In this Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) class, students will explore the legacy of racial terrorism in North Carolina. Students will search archival sources to discover the family histories of lynching victims, tracing…

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ENGL 88 · First Year Seminar: The Legacy of the Japanese American Internment: from WWII to 9/110

English & Comparative Literature

This course will explore stories about the Japanese American internment from first person memoirs to contemporary fiction. We will also examine the ramifications, historic and legal, of the internment post-9/11.

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HIST 262 · History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews0

History

Anti-Semitism; the Jews of Europe; the Hitler dictatorship; evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from persecution to the Final Solution; Jewish response; collaborators, bystanders, and rescuers; aftermath.

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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 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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