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University of Rochester · Ethnic & African American Studies

25% of University of Rochester'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 Rochester: 25% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

22%Far left92–100

44%Left75–91

33%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

9 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

BLST 203 · Quemaremos el cielo si es preciso: Subversive Narratives of the Afro-Caribbean100

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course examines contemporary literature and cultural productions (films, art, music) from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. It will explore works that challenge and dismantle the racial and gender/sexual hierarchies rooted in colonialism…

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BLST 233A · Policing America: Race, Class, and Criminalization92

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the historical and contemporary intersections of race, class, and policing in the United States. By examining the evolution of policing from its earliest forms in slave patrols to…

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BLST 285 · Civil Disobedience78

Ethnic & African American Studies

This course will examine the varieties of thought about, and practice of, civil disobedience within social movements, with an emphasis on contemporary activism. When, why, and how do communities choose to push back against structures of…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Rochester Ethnic & African American Studies has 9 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 Rochester · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	25	—	24	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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