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History of African Americans from their origins in Africa to their current situation in the United States. Focuses on the institution of slavery, showing how it changed over time and how African American culture evolved; the ways in which…
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Yeshiva University
Yeshiva University's course descriptions average 61.7 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so Yeshiva University reads 5.9 points further right.
Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)
Where its courses fall
0%Far left92–100
11%Left75–91
32%Center-left59–74
32%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
16%Right9–25
11%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Political Science
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Political Science
Theoretical perspectives appropriate to the analysis of political, religious, and cultural movements; case studies of civil rights movement, women’s movement, and others.
Furthest-right subjects
History
Examines works by some of the major figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, such as Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Hume and Kant. Considers the institutional settings in which Enlightenment ideas took shape, the media through which…
History
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History
Women 2024-2026 The nature of Nazi anti-Semitism; the evolution of the Holocaust to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews; Jewish responses and the various rescue attempts, including non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews. 1501; 1505…
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 56.3 to 67.0; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.
- Only 3 of Yeshiva University's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
- 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.
Yeshiva University by department (share of courses described from the left)
| Department | Left-framed share | Courses | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art & Art History | 1.8% | 55 | view |
| Political Science | 1.8% | 57 | view |
| History | 1.6% | 64 | view |
| Economics | 0% | 37 | view |
| English & Comparative Literature | 0% | 62 | view |
| Philosophy | 0% | 35 | view |
| Psychology | 0% | 36 | view |
| Religious Studies | 0% | 60 | view |
| Sociology | 0% | 27 | view |
| Women's & Gender Studies | 0% | 2 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeshiva University | mean_bias_score | 61.7 | 56.3 – 67.0 | 435 | 3 |
| 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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