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University of California, Berkeley · History

7.3% of University of California, Berkeley's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of California, Berkeley: 7.3% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
16 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HISTORY 110D · Palestine and the Palestinians: A Modern History86

History

This course teaches the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinian people from a multireligious Ottoman Palestine to the contemporary moment. It centers the experience of being Palestinian at home and in exile after the Nakba of 1948.…

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HISTORY 126B · Mexican American Histories75

History

This course introduces students to the history of Mexican and Mexican American peoples in the United States. It begins in the precolonial Americas with an emphasis on North America and the region that later became the U.S. Southwest, and it…

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HISTORY 114B · India: Modern South Asia72

History

Here we will deal with the history of South Asia between the coming of the Europeans and the present. It will be organized around a series of contested formulations about the recent South Asian past. One of these problems is: how was India…

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Furthest right

None. University of California, Berkeley History has 15 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
University of California, Berkeley · Historybias_left_share7.3—205—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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