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University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame's course descriptions average 65.0 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Notre Dame reads 2.5 points further right.

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University of Notre Dame: 65.0 (likely range 63.9 to 66.2) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

<1%Far left92–100

11%Left75–91

76%Center-left59–74

10%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

<1%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

193 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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THEO 44108 · Feminist Interpretation of Bible94

Religious Studies

This course introduces and equips you how to do feminist/gender critical biblical interpretations for your communities of faith. This subject is grounded in the ecumenical belief that all humankind are equal, and we worship an inclusive and…

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POLS 44217 · Travellers, Rights, Nomadism, and Ethnicity84

Political Science

Irish Travellers are a small indigenous ethnic minority. Despite their long history of nomadism and their unique cultural traditions, there has been limited recognition of uniqueness in political and social terms. They have been identified…

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ANTH 34517 · Blackness in Italy: Histories, Subjectivities, and Contemporary Challenges83

Anthropology

This course offers a critical examination of the social conditions of Black Italians today, at the intersection of gender, race and class inequalities with a focus on their lived experience and calls for structural change. Within the frame…

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THEO 40208 · Catholicism and The City: Good Urbanism as Human Flourishing, Env. Stewardship, and Sacramentality25

Religious Studies

Catholicism and The City is an Architecture course intended primarily but not exclusively for undergraduate and graduate architecture students, and for undergraduate students from other disciplines. Viewed through the lenses of Catholic…

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THEO 24857 · Marriage and Family Today31

Religious Studies

The course will consider marriage and family as the natural reality, which allows us to understand its institutionalization and marriage as a sacrament. Therefore, assessing the social and ecclesial discussion, the course is aimed at…

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PHIL 34508 · Anarchy, Law and State33

Philosophy

PHIL 30230 Anarchy, Law, and State at UCD; This module will consider a central topic in political philosophy - the nature, function and justification of the State - from a libertarian perspective. A considerable amount of reading material…

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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 63.9 to 66.2; 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 Notre Dame by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	48.5%	66	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	31.0%	84	view
Sociology	11.3%	115	view
Political Science	8.8%	318	view
English & Comparative Literature	8.5%	200	view
Anthropology	8.3%	277	view
History	6.9%	360	view
Art & Art History	2.5%	239	view
Religious Studies	2.5%	365	view
Psychology	1.9%	162	view
Philosophy	1.5%	271	view
Economics	1.4%	219	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 Notre Dame	mean_bias_score	65.0	63.9 – 66.2	2,676	193
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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