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University of California-Los Angeles's course descriptions average 67.7 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of California-Los Angeles reads 0.1 points further left.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

University of California-Los Angeles: 67.7 (likely range 66.6 to 68.8) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

4%Far left92–100

43%Left75–91

39%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

1%Center-right26–41

4%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

342 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

Economics 284 · Soviet Economic Theory and Organization100

Economics

Lecture, three hours. Overall strategy of planning used by USSR planners and specific planning methods, interpreted broadly to cover not only instructions and objectives but also institutional arrangements. Intended and unintended outcomes of methods. S/U or letter grading.

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History 120D · Film and History: Central and Eastern Europe, 1945 to 1989100

History

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Postwar history of central and eastern Europe (1945 to 1989), using eight Czech, Polish, and Hungarian films to explore life under state socialist…

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History 127C · History of Russia: Revolutionary Russia and Soviet Union100

History

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Revolutions of 1917, Civil War, consolidation of Bolshevik Regime; succession crisis and ascendancy of Stalin, collectivization and…

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Furthest-right subjects

African American Studies 158A · Comparative Slavery Systems0

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Same as History M150A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of slavery experiences in various New World slave societies, with emphasis on outlining similarities and…

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African American Studies 158B · Introduction to Afro-American History0

Ethnic & African American Studies

(Same as History M150B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of Afro-American experience, with emphasis on three great transitions of Afro-American life: transition from Africa…

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History 150C · Introduction to Afro-American History0

History

(Same as African American Studies M158C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of Afro-American experience, with emphasis on three great transitions of Afro-American life:…

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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 66.6 to 68.8; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

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.

University of California-Los Angeles by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	19.8%	121	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	17.4%	414	view
Sociology	7.7%	155	view
Anthropology	3.9%	152	view
History	3.8%	320	view
Political Science	2.8%	144	view
Religious Studies	2%	50	view
Psychology	1.8%	166	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.6%	258	view
Philosophy	0.8%	131	view
Art & Art History	0.5%	203	view
Economics	0%	155	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
University of California-Los Angeles	mean_bias_score	67.7	66.6 – 68.8	2,269	140
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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