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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Anthropology

3.3% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 3.3% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

50%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

17%Far right0–8

12 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

ANTH 426 · Decolonization88

Anthropology

A deep dive into the histories, philosophies, and praxis of decolonization. We will investigate colonial histories across the globe, the writings of major participants in decolonization movements, and contemporary settler colonialisms and…

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ANTH 426 · Decolonization85

Anthropology

This course will be a deep dive into the histories, philosophies, and praxis of decolonization. We will investigate colonial histories across the globe, the writings of major participants in decolonization movements, and contemporary…

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ANTH 424 · Queer Anthropology83

Anthropology

Queer anthropology, a field that was established out of various older fields in the discipline – anthropology of gender, anthropology of sexuality, lesbian and gay anthropology – emerged as a response to calls in other disciplines to move…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 454 · Archaeology of the African Diaspora0

Anthropology

Historical archaeology of African, North American and Latin American sites relating to the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans in the New World from the 15th to the 19th centuries.(RE) Prerequisite(s): ANTH…

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ANTH 575 · Deconstructing Eugenics0

Anthropology

Focuses on understanding the circumstances, individuals, and ideas that brought about eugenics and its implementation from its roots in the 18th century to the present. Based on a flawed application of biological thinking, and fueled by…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Anthropology	bias_left_share	3.3	—	150	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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