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University of Virginia · Anthropology

5.4% of University of Virginia'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 Virginia: 5.4% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

5%Far left92–100
27%Left75–91
55%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
9%Right9–25
5%Far right0–8
22 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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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 7344 · Anthropology and Anarchy96

Anthropology

Anarch–organizing society through horizontal relations of free association–has a modern European history contemporary with Anthropology and has Indigenous histories in many places where people decided together to organize society against…

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ANTH 3100 · Indigenous Landscapes80

Anthropology

This course engages with ways that historical process are inscribed in landscapes, which are the traditional territories of indigenous communities and have also been shaped by colonialism, extractive enterprise, and nature conservation. It…

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ANTH 2621 · Culture, Gender and Violence78

Anthropology

Beginning with a discussion of the cultural patterning of social action, this course examines sex, gender, and sexuality as culturally constructed and socially experienced, with special attention to non-Western examples that contrast with…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 3603 · Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery0

Anthropology

This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British…

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ANTH 2060 · Comparing World Racisms12

Anthropology

What can we learn about racism by comparing the forms it takes in different parts of the world? In this course we will compare anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and other racisms in a selection of the following places and times: Brazil, Japan,…

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ANTH 3700 · Globalizing India: Society, Bazaars and Cultural Politics20

Anthropology

A study of selected interrelated major cultural, religious and political changes for comprehending India after independence. The course will focus on major urban centers for explicating changing family, marriage and caste relationships;…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Virginia · Anthropologybias_left_share5.4—147—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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