Political Science
The Chinese revolution; social, political, and economic developments in post-1949 China; China after Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung).
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University of Southern California · Political Science
0.6% of University of Southern California's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
0%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
54%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Political Science
An examination of gender and culture in world society. Feminist perspectives on and critiques of various approaches to international relations theories. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
Political Science
Comparison of relationships between rich and poor countries involving political and economic resources and prospects for development; impact on industrialized states; interdependence; new international economic order.
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
Analysis of the political thought of the American Founders; consideration of alternative visions of patriarchalism, republicanism, and liberal democracy; exploration of Founders’ core values and their impact on issues of race, class, and gender.
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 Southern California · Political Science | bias_left_share | 0.6 | — | 156 | — |
| Political Science | bias_left_share | 5.2 | 4.8 – 5.6 | 12,053 | — |
- 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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