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University of California-Los Angeles · Religious Studies

2% of University of California-Los Angeles's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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University of California-Los Angeles: 2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

20%Left75–91

60%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

20%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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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Framing Subject

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

Religion, Study of 156 · Religion and Liberation88

Religious Studies

Lecture, two hours; discussion, 30 minutes. Study traces ways religion and liberation have been understood to connect in the later 20th-century phenomenon called liberation theology. Started by James Cone’s embrace of Christian Black Power…

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Religion, Study of 108 · Qur’an67

Religious Studies

(Same as Arabic CM106.) Lecture, three hours. Introduction to Qur’an, its early history, and form and function as scripture in Muslim history, civilization, and culture. Focus also on Qur’anic interpretation, its relationship to Islamic…

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Religion, Study of 150 · Women, Gender, and Religion67

Religious Studies

Lecture, four hours. Investigation and consideration of roles, status, and representations of women and gender in one or more religious traditions. Examination of how cultural conceptions of gender as well as social realities (as far as…

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Furthest-right subjects

Religion, Study of 173C · Shinto, Buddhism, and Japanese Folk Religion33

Religious Studies

(Same as History M173C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Social dimension of various Ways, great and little: Shinto’s connection with cultural nationalism, Buddhism’s medieval…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California-Los Angeles · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	2	—	50	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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