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University of California-Riverside · History

3.3% of University of California-Riverside's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

0%35%
University of California-Riverside: 3.3% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

6%Far left92–100
30%Left75–91
21%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
6%Center-right26–41
3%Right9–25
12%Far right0–8
33 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

HISA 134 · Black Feminist Theory and Activism92

History

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Considers the writings and collective organizational strategies of African American women intellectuals and activists developed in…

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HIST 209B · Reading Seminar in Modern Russia: Soviet History92

History

, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Examines the historiography of Russian history. Topics include social development, cultural and religious history, Stalinism, World War II, and…

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HISA 136 · Historical Perspectives On Mass Incarceration90

History

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Historical perspectives on U.S. mass incarceration. Explores historic roots of conquest, colonialism, racial subjugation, capitalism, and…

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Furthest-right subjects

HISA 110A · Colonial America0

History

, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An exploration of early American society from settlement through the mid- eighteenth century. Topics include the convergence of Native…

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HISA 113 · Slavery and the Old South0

History

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An investigation of slavery in the antebellum South. Topics include: the emergence of the self-conscious South, the romanticized plantation, American historians and slavery, etc.

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HISA 126 · Family Histories and American Culture0

History

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores experiences of family and kinship in the nineteenth- century United States, especially in the context of Indian removal, racial…

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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-Riverside · Historybias_left_share3.3—184—
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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