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University of Notre Dame · Ethnic & African American Studies

31.0% of University of Notre Dame's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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University of Notre Dame: 31.0% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

3%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
43%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
6%Far right0–8
35 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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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

ILS 30419 · Frida Kahlo and Che Guevara: Icons, Myths, and Legacies92

Ethnic & African American Studies

This is a course on twentieth century Latin American history. It examines the region through the life, writings, global impact, mythical significance, and legacy of revolutionary icon Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967). While the discussions…

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AFST 13184 · History University Seminar: USEM History: Slavery and Freedom in the United States88

Ethnic & African American Studies

An introduction to the seminar method of instruction that explores the major methodologies of the historical discipline and which accents the organization and expression of arguments suggested by readings in historical topics. Between the…

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AFST 40401 · Black Arts and Black Power Revisited85

Ethnic & African American Studies

This interdisciplinary course examines the historiography of the Black Power and Black Arts movements of the sixties and seventies. The poet and theorist Larry Neal defined the Black Arts Movement as "the aesthetic and spiritual sister of…

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Furthest-right subjects

AFST 30296 · Making of the Atlantic World0

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course is a survey-style introduction to the early modern Atlantic world, the global region brought together beginning in the fifteenth century by commercial interests, military conquest, and the African slave trade. It explores the…

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AFST 30297 · Slavery in Global History5

Ethnic & African American Studies

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to major themes in the global history of slavery with a specific focus on the location of slavery in the making of the modern world bringing together histories from the Atlantic, Indian,…

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AFST 30294 · Colonial Latin America17

Ethnic & African American Studies

When Columbus stepped ashore in the Caribbean in 1492, he set in motion a process that led to the creation of wealthy Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Americas, the genocide of countless numbers of indigenous men and women, the…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Notre Dame · Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share31.0—84—
Ethnic & African American Studiesbias_left_share24.723.7 – 25.67,955—
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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