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University of Rochester · History

9.1% of University of Rochester'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 Rochester: 9.1% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

11%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
44%Center-left59–74
11%Center42–58
11%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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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

HIST 591 · PhD Readings in History: Past & Present Politics of Archaeological Practice92

History

This independent study will explore the politics of past and present archaeological practice with a specific focus on colonial and imperial approaches, their subsequent appropriations of material culture for museum, and the consequences of…

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HIST 132 · The Russian Empire, 1689-191778

History

This course examines the history of the Russian Empire from the reign of Peter the Great (1692-1725) to the revolutions of 1917. Students will read primary sources in translation, academic articles, and a survey text. About one-half of…

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HIST 143 · Modern China, 1600-Present78

History

This course surveys the history of China from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. From the May Fourth Movement to the Cultural Revolution, Chinese society and culture underwent significant transformation as it was…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIST 348 · Unsafe America: Accidents, Disasters, and Society: 1800-202038

History

According to data from the National Safety Council, unintended injuries cause over 224,000 deaths and62,000,000 cases involving medical attention per year across the country. Since the nineteenth century,"accidents" from car crashes to 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 Rochester · Historybias_left_share9.1—33—
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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