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University of Notre Dame · Philosophy

1.5% of University of Notre Dame's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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University of Notre Dame: 1.5% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
20%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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

Furthest left

PHIL 20213 · The Fragmented Self: Philosophy of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Disability69

Philosophy

This course, cross-listed between the philosophy department and the gender studies program, invites students into an in-depth theoretical exploration of the self as seen through the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and disability.…

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PHIL 24539 · Feminism and Gender Justice65

Philosophy

This module introduces students to contemporary feminist ideas and key feminist debates, specifically feminist gender theory (including discussions of Queer Theory and Hegemonic Masculinity), and feminist political ethics (including…

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PHIL 20409 · Black Political Thought64

Philosophy

This course will focus on the writings of Black political thinkers in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Through critical examination of the conditions against, and contexts within, which the political theories of these thinkers are…

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Furthest right

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

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 · Philosophybias_left_share1.5—271—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
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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