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Williams CollegeWilliams College's course descriptions average 69.3 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Williams College reads 1.7 points further left.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Ethnic & African American Studies
Cross-listings: WGSS 402 / AMST 402 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar provides an overview of queer, black and women of color feminist, decolonial, and critical ethnic studies critiques of orthodox Marxism. Beginning with core texts from…
Ethnic & African American Studies
Cross-listings: AMST 372 / STS 373 Secondary Cross-listing This course is an introduction to theories, methods, sources, and approaches for interdisciplinary research and creativity in and through the interdisciplinary field of American…
Women's & Gender Studies
Cross-listings: AAS 402 / AMST 402 Secondary Cross-listing This seminar provides an overview of queer, black and women of color feminist, decolonial, and critical ethnic studies critiques of orthodox Marxism. Beginning with core texts from…
Sociology
Cross-listings: PSCI 380 Secondary Cross-listing Something has happened to America over the past fifteen years. Large minorities of young adults, especially young men, are now celibate. Cohabitation has skyrocketed but marriage is…
Political Science
Cross-listings: SOC 390 Primary Cross-listing Something has happened to America over the past fifteen years. Large minorities of young adults, especially young men, are now celibate. Cohabitation has skyrocketed but marriage is…
History
The United States emerged from the Second World War with unprecedented power and influence; for the first time it was poised to take on a level of global leadership that it had long shirked. Yet the U.S. faced an uncertain world, marked by…
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 68.1 to 70.5; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnic & African American Studies | 62.2% | 90 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 59.7% | 72 | view |
| Sociology | 50% | 30 | view |
| Anthropology | 40.7% | 27 | view |
| History | 27% | 100 | view |
| Political Science | 25.3% | 87 | view |
| Religious Studies | 25% | 64 | view |
| Art & Art History | 16.8% | 161 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 16.4% | 128 | view |
| Economics | 10.1% | 99 | view |
| Philosophy | 9.4% | 53 | view |
| Psychology | 7.1% | 42 | view |
Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College | mean_bias_score | 69.3 | 68.1 – 70.5 | 953 | 260 |
| All 100 schools | mean_bias_score | 67.5 | 67.4 – 67.7 | 124,290 | 10,124 |