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Vassar College · Religious Studies

12.2% of Vassar College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Vassar College: 12.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

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

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

RELI 245 · Making Waves: Topics in Feminist Activism70

Religious Studies

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as WFQS 245 ) Topic for 2024/25a: Feminism, Religion, and Spirituality . Feminism and religion are ordinarily understood to be at odds with one another. Religion is often coded as patriarchal and…

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RELI 256 · Theology of the Prison68

Religious Studies

1 unit(s) How might the experience of imprisonment have influenced the development of Christian ideas about the body, salvation, and justice? Does the contemporary crisis of America's "prison-industrial complex" demand new attention to this…

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RELI 209 · The Devil You Know: Personifying Evil in the West67

Religious Studies

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) You already know the devil. He's the serpent in the Garden of Eden. He's the rebellious angel who got pushed into hell. He possesses small children in horror films. The devil appears for many as God's…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College Religious Studies has 5 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 · Religious Studiesbias_left_share12.2—41—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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