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University of California-Irvine · History

0.9% of University of California-Irvine's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

0%35%
University of California-Irvine: 0.9% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
30%Left75–91
10%Center-left59–74
30%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
30%Far right0–8
10 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

HISTORY 15A · Native American History83

History

Native American history in North America, emphasizing Indigenous perspectives and creative adaptations to changing historical circumstances. Topics may include sovereignty, settler colonialism, treaties, decolonization, Indigeneity;…

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HISTORY 15A · Native American History83

History

Native American history in North America, emphasizing Indigenous perspectives and creative adaptations to changing historical circumstances. Topics may include sovereignty, settler colonialism, treaties, decolonization, Indigeneity;…

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HISTORY 15D · History of Sexuality in the US75

History

Explores intertwined histories of sexuality, race, and gender in the US. By examining how different cultures and times viewed sexuality, race, and gender, it analyzes relationships between regulation of bodies/behaviors and construction of…

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Furthest-right subjects

HISTORY 10 · The Holocaust0

History

Introduction to the history of European Jewish communities before the Holocaust; the origins of Nazi antisemitism; the implementation of the "Final Solution"; Jewish resistance to the Nazis; and attempts in film and literature to represent…

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HISTORY 130D · History of Antisemitism0

History

Survey of the history of antisemitism, ancient to modern. Topics include medieval religious anti-Judaism, persecution of Jews and Judaism during the Crusades and the Inquisition, the rise of modern racial antisemitism, Nazi antisemitism,…

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HISTORY 15G · Racial Segregation in Modern U.S.0

History

Explores the history of racial segregation in the United States from the late 19th century to the present.

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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
University of California-Irvine · Historybias_left_share0.9—117—
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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