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University of Southern California · History

1.9% of University of Southern California'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 Southern California: 1.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
4 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

HIST 398 · The History of Waste75

History

Uses waste as a lens to explore the ties between economic development, ecological disruption, resource extraction and racial, class and gender exploitation.

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HIST 459 · Race and the Carceral State67

History

Explores the connections between historical and contemporary methods of incarceration - confinement, punishment, surveillance and discipline - and the production of racial hierarchies.

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HIST 265gw · Racism, Sexism, and the Law62

History

Study of laws concerning marriage, inheritance, slavery, immigration and the allocation of public space and how they have organized historical constructions of race and sex. Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis…

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Furthest right

None. University of Southern California History has 4 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 Southern California · Historybias_left_share1.9—207—
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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