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University of California-Los Angeles · Anthropology

3.9% of University of California-Los Angeles's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of California-Los Angeles: 3.9% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100
29%Left75–91
53%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
12%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
17 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

Anthropology 256 · Language, Culture, and Education88

Anthropology

(Same as Education M286.) Seminar, three hours. Examination of ongoing movement to reclaim and reimagine schooling as site to sustain indigenous, black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander communities, including ways these…

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Anthropology 247R · Modernization and Taiwan Indigenous Societies86

Anthropology

Seminar, three hours. Historical examination of impact of modernization on indigenous populations in Taiwan beginning with Han colonization. Examination of integration of indigenous groups into state politics and market economy, and…

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Anthropology 163P · Ideology and Social Change in Contemporary China83

Anthropology

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Introduction to sociocultural changes in China from 1949 to present. Topics include ideology and politics in everyday life, social stratification and mobility, cultural…

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Furthest-right subjects

Anthropology 134 · Anthropology of Migration33

Anthropology

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Introduction of different views on population movement from refugee crisis and migration tendencies to policies surrounding newcomers’ incorporation and anti-immigration political…

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Anthropology 133 · Anthropology of Food38

Anthropology

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Production, consumption, and distribution of food, with particular emphasis on culture of food. Exploration of ecological history, class, poverty, hunger, ethnicity, nationalism,…

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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-Los Angeles · Anthropologybias_left_share3.9—152—
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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