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Wesleyan University's course descriptions average 70.9 on the 100-to-0 ruler: well left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Wesleyan University reads 3.4 points further left.

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Wesleyan University: 70.9 (likely range 69.9 to 71.9) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

6%Far left92–100

29%Left75–91

61%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

413 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.

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AFAM 222 · Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital100

Ethnic & African American Studies

This class explores Black women's fiction as a mode of critique and intervention into Black Americans' complicated relationships with social and economic capital in the wake of US chattel slavery. How do Black people negotiate the…

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ENGL 245 · Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction100

English & Comparative Literature

There are ways of reading concerned with fixing, policing, and reifying assumed meanings, as well as the violent, normative structures that ground them, and there are ways of reading to the limits of what is (un)certain yet…

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FGSS 220 · Literature and Black Feminism: The Dramas of Black Capital100

Women's & Gender Studies

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None. Wesleyan University has 413 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 69.9 to 71.9; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

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.

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

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	54.5%	143	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	54.2%	153	view
Anthropology	43.8%	89	view
Sociology	41.0%	61	view
History	23.4%	239	view
English & Comparative Literature	20.7%	285	view
Religious Studies	13.9%	115	view
Philosophy	13.5%	111	view
Psychology	13.2%	114	view
Political Science	9.6%	136	view
Art & Art History	8.2%	147	view
Economics	2.2%	89	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
Wesleyan University	mean_bias_score	70.9	69.9 – 71.9	1,682	413
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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