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Vassar College · Political Science

32.4% of Vassar College's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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Vassar College: 32.4% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

4%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
54%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
24 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

POLI 284 · Temporality, Ecology, and Technoscience95

Political Science

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as STS 284 ) Drawing from decolonial ecologies, queer ecofeminisms, and other critical, ecosophical perspectives, this theory course engages the politics of ecology and technology insofar as these…

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POLI 361 · The Global Haitian Revolution88

Political Science

1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 361 and INTL 361 ) This seminar works through the essential contours of CLR James' The Black Jacobins, which offers a powerful transnational vision of revolutionary change by reconsidering the global "Age of…

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POLI 232 · International Law and The Anthropocene87

Political Science

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) The course examines the history of international law and its relationship to nature and the legal mechanisms that continue to shape extraction globally. We unpack the role of international law in responding…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College Political Science has 24 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Vassar College · Political Sciencebias_left_share32.4—74—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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