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University of Southern California
University of Southern California's course descriptions average 64.4 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Southern California reads 3.2 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
19%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest left
Ethnic & African American Studies
Max Units: 8.0 Examines meaning of “whiteness” from historical and other disciplinary perspectives; focus is on how whiteness operates within specific racial regimes to perpetuate inequality.
History
Uses waste as a lens to explore the ties between economic development, ecological disruption, resource extraction and racial, class and gender exploitation.
Furthest right
None. University of Southern California has 16 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.
Why this number, in plain words
Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.
50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.
Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 61.5 to 67.2; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 16 of University of Southern California's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
- Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
- Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
University of Southern California by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 10.7% | 28 | view |
| Sociology | 3.5% | 86 | view |
| History | 1.9% | 207 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 1.2% | 86 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0.9% | 225 | view |
| Economics | 0.8% | 129 | view |
| Political Science | 0.6% | 156 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0.6% | 175 | view |
| Anthropology | 0% | 104 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 95 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 119 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 89 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Southern California | mean_bias_score | 64.4 | 61.5 – 67.2 | 1,499 | 16 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |
- Formula
- SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
- Interval
- normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
- Model / prompt / snapshot
- gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
- Metric caveats
- Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.
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