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Washington University in St. Louis · Political Science

6.3% of Washington University in St. Louis'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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Washington University in St. Louis: 6.3% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

0%Far left92–100
11%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
22%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 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

L32 4241 · Topics in American Politics: Race and Politics75

Political Science

From the moment enslaved Africans were brought to American shores, race and racism has been central to the American political project. In this class we will examine how notions of race and racism inform conceptions of citizenship, the…

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L32 4080 · Voting Rights64

Political Science

This course will study legal concepts of voting rights and election law that impact the ability of citizens to access and participate in the democratic process. It will include the opportunity for students to directly engage in observing,…

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L32 3005 · Fast Fashion and the Environment63

Political Science

Students will leave this term with a greater understanding of not just this phenomenon, but the policies that created and now maintain it. Students will have an opportunity to identify and evaluate fast fashion brand performance relative to…

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Furthest right

None. Washington University in St. Louis Political Science has 8 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
Washington University in St. Louis · Political Sciencebias_left_share6.3—127—
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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