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Wesleyan University · Anthropology

43.8% of Wesleyan University's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

0%45%
Wesleyan University: 43.8% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

20%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
45 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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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

ANTH 274 · Self & Social Transformation100

Anthropology

Racism, sexism, and classism are deeply ingrained in our habits and feelings. It seems that in order to change objective conditions we need to change ourselves and our communities. But given that our habits and feelings are often…

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ANTH 286 · Queer Activism and Radical Scholarship: Beyond Theory vs. Practice100

Anthropology

This course explores the relationship between scholarship and activism, with a focus on intersectional radical queer scholarship and activism--queer left, black radical, trans, immigration, prison abolition, and sex work--in the United…

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ANTH 325 · Race and Reproduction100

Anthropology

This interdisciplinary course explores the intimacy of race and reproduction against the backdrop of capitalist modernity. We scrutinize the policies, priorities, and perversions of slave owners, the racially differentiated family planning…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 337 · Missionary Mysteries: the Objects and Archives of Wesleyan's Missionary Past25

Anthropology

This course examines the history of Wesleyan University's connections to missionary work in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as seen through the university's archival and object collections. Students will spend the bulk of…

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Wesleyan University · Anthropologybias_left_share43.8—89—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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