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
University of Tennessee-Knoxville's course descriptions average 65.2 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of Tennessee-Knoxville reads 2.4 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
2%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
43%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
3%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
9%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
Sociology
Explores the emergence of race and racism with capitalism through an examination of capitalist geographies, institutions, racialized labor dynamics, and in resistance to various forms of domination. Course themes may include racial slavery,…
Ethnic & African American Studies
This course explores literary depictions of the relationships between Black and Indigenous peoples in the United States. Students will critically examine literary texts and historical documents from the nineteenth century to the present-day…
Furthest-right subjects
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…
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…
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…
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 63.1 to 67.2; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- 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 Tennessee-Knoxville by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's & Gender Studies | 30.8% | 13 | view |
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 17.6% | 34 | view |
| Sociology | 7.4% | 94 | view |
| Anthropology | 3.3% | 150 | view |
| Philosophy | 3.1% | 64 | view |
| Psychology | 3.1% | 128 | view |
| Political Science | 2.9% | 103 | view |
| Religious Studies | 1.3% | 79 | view |
| History | 0.5% | 186 | view |
| Art & Art History | 0% | 224 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 110 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 226 | 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 Tennessee-Knoxville | mean_bias_score | 65.2 | 63.1 – 67.2 | 1,411 | 33 |
| 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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