History
Focus on most important revolutions in modern European history: French Revolution of 1789 and Russian Revolution of 1917.
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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · History
0.5% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.
0%35%
Where History courses fall
6%Far left92–100
11%Left75–91
11%Center-left59–74
22%Center42–58
6%Center-right26–41
17%Right9–25
28%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
History
This course will focus on the Algerian Revolution of 1954-1962, a particularly violent chapter in France’s colonial history. In France, the manner in which the war was fought raised unsettling and divisive questions about the use of…
History
South African history from the pre-colonial period through post-apartheid era. African state formation, resistance to European colonization, impact of industrialization, evolution of modern resistance movements, first democratic elections.(Same as AFST 381 .)
Furthest-right subjects
History
Examines the cultural history of medicine in Germany from the late nineteenth century to 1945. Includes discussion of race, gender, and class in medicine, and ideas about health, illness, disability, and the body in a dictatorship that…
History
Examines the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas, ca. 1450-1888. Focus on the Caribbean, South and North America.(Same as LAC 450 .)
History
History of the rise and fall of racial slavery in the United States.(Same as AFST 300 *.)Satisfies Volunteer Core Requirement: (GCUS)
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 · History | bias_left_share | 0.5 | — | 186 | — |
| History | bias_left_share | 8.3 | 7.9 – 8.7 | 17,232 | — |
- 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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