History
SSc Communism from its origins in Bolshevik faction of Russian social democracy to the present, treating the development of the ideology, the various communist parties, and the communist states.
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University of Washington · History
6.4% of University of Washington'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
2%Far left92–100
30%Left75–91
27%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
5%Center-right26–41
7%Right9–25
14%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.
Furthest-left subjects
History
SSc, DIV Social/intellectual history of Black freedom movements in long nineteenth century beginning with Haitian Revolution in late 1790s to resistance to US occupation of Hispaniola in 1910s. Covers antislavery activism and liberation…
History
SSc, DIV Explores the history of the prison from antiquity to today, focusing on the experiences of prisoners and the ideology of societies who lock them up. Investigates incarceration as a colonial and capitalist tool for punishing…
Furthest-right subjects
History
SSc, DIV In most accounts, "the Holocaust" is told as a European story, but it was also transatlantic. Incorporates film, literature, journalism, social scientific writing, diaries, court cases, and other primary sources to examine how…
History
Explores the rise of American slavery beginning with the development of the Atlantic slave trade between southern European powers and coastal African traders. Topics include cultures of slavery in the Americas, comparative racial…
History
SSc, DIV Examines the forms that slavery and slave trading have taken in contemporary times.
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 Washington · History | bias_left_share | 6.4 | — | 357 | — |
| 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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