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Washington and Lee University · Religious Studies

1.7% of Washington and Lee University'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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Washington and Lee University: 1.7% 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

60%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

20%Far right0–8

5 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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Framing Subject

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

REL 172 · Muslims in the Movies67

Religious Studies

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution An examination of the history of visual representation of Islam and Muslims in classical and modern cinema. We approach movies produced by both Muslims and non-Muslims over the last century as historical…

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REL 220 · Whose Law? Pluralism, Conflict, and Justice63

Religious Studies

FDR: SS4 Social Science - Group 4 Distribution Society is made up of schools, corporations, religions, guilds, associations, tribes, etc., each defined by a set of more-or-less formal rules that apply in various ways depending on the status…

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REL 250 · Truth, Belief, Dissent: Defining Insiders and Outsiders in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Religion63

Religious Studies

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution Open to all students regardless of class year or major. Who decides what is orthodox [acceptable thought] and what is heretical [unacceptable], how are these decisions made, and what impact do they have on…

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Furthest-right subjects

REL 246 · Caste at the Intersection of Economy, Religion, and Law8

Religious Studies

ECON 246 FDR: SS4 Social Science - Group 4 Distribution Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes ECON 100 or 101 required only for credit as an elective in the Economics major. Prerequisite: instructor consent. Same as ECON 246. Social…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Washington and Lee University · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	1.7	—	60	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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