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Wake Forest University's course descriptions average 67.6 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, the same.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

Wake Forest University: 67.6 (likely range 64.9 to 70.2) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

26%Left75–91

59%Center-left59–74

15%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

27 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

WGS 332 · Men, Masculinity and Power.82

Women's & Gender Studies

Offers an introduction to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of masculinity studies. Students will explore the social, historical, and cultural construction of masculinity and male roles (as fathers, sexual and romantic partners, and…

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WGS 307 · The Queer Fantastic.78

Women's & Gender Studies

We consider fantastic writing from the 1930s to the present that critiques the hegemonic values of gender and sexuality by offering other social and societal structures, and consider the otherworldly as a critical refraction of the world that produced the writer.

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SOC 358 · Racial Capitalism.75

Sociology

Examines the historical and contemporary relationship between race and capitalism. Covers both the origins and operations of racial capitalism as well as global movements that challenge it.

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None. Wake Forest University has 27 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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 64.9 to 70.2; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Only 27 of Wake Forest University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
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.

Wake Forest University by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	44.1%	34	view
Sociology	14.6%	41	view
Anthropology	7.5%	40	view
Political Science	2.4%	85	view
History	0.7%	134	view
Art & Art History	0%	94	view
Economics	0%	43	view
English & Comparative Literature	0%	75	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	0%	26	view
Philosophy	0%	54	view
Psychology	0%	36	view
Religious Studies	0%	70	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
Wake Forest University	mean_bias_score	67.6	64.9 – 70.2	732	27
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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