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University of Notre Dame · Women's & Gender Studies

48.5% of University of Notre Dame's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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University of Notre Dame: 48.5% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

2%Far left92–100

51%Left75–91

42%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

45 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.

Furthest-left subjects

GSC 34050 · Social Justice Movements: Global and Local92

Women's & Gender Studies

Across the globe, people stand together in struggles to create a better world. Social justice movements refer to forms of collective action that seek to challenge oppression and transform society. The overall objective of this module is to…

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GSC 44156 · Feminist Judaism Theory and Practice90

Women's & Gender Studies

In this course, we will read some of the classic works of Jewish feminist critique of traditional (rabbinic: androcentric) Judaism from across the Jewish religious spectrum, and varied proposals for a Judaism which is in female as well as…

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GSC 44089 · Culture and Queer Theory86

Women's & Gender Studies

This course introduces students to LGBT Studies and queer theory with specific focuses on keywords, concepts, and debate that animate the field. In particular, we will examine the role of culture as a site of power relation, aesthetic…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Notre Dame Women's & Gender Studies has 43 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Notre Dame · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	48.5	—	66	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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