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University of Notre Dame · History

6.9% of University of Notre Dame's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of Notre Dame: 6.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

2%Far left92–100
20%Left75–91
34%Center-left59–74
19%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
6%Right9–25
12%Far right0–8
93 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.

Furthest-left subjects

HIST 34140 · The Chinese Cultural Revolution100

History

The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a defining episode in modern China. In ten years, it dismantled the state, party, and economy with widespread social upheaval and violence, followed by unrelenting oppressive campaigns. It…

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HIST 34055 · Communist China through Cinema92

History

The purpose of this course is to study how the history of Communist China is told, revealed and questioned by some Chinese film productions (fiction and documentary, official or independant). We will focus on the moments of the Mao Era,…

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HIST 30922 · Frida Kahlo and Che Guevara: Icons, Myths, and Legacies90

History

This is a course on twentieth century Latin American history. It examines the region through the lives, writings, global impact, mythical significance, legacy, and contradictions of revolutionary icons Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Ernesto…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 34051 · Survey of South African History0

History

This course follows the history of the development of South Africa starting with the arrival of Europeans. It analyzes the impacts past events on others and covers early colonialism, the Anglo-Boer War, the gold and diamond rush, Apartheid,…

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HIST 34464 · Nazi Germany0

History

This course aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of the Nazi period and its significance for modern German and European history. This period is a particularly fascinating one because it raises a host of questions about…

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HIST 34468 · Nazi Germany: Assessing the Evidence0

History

The historiography of Nazi Germany is vast. Since 1945, historians have grappled with evidence to interpret the Nazi regime and to assess the role of its leaders, the culpability of German society, and the causes, impacts and legacies of…

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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 · Historybias_left_share6.9—360—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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