Philosophy
, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An examination of the ideas central to the tradition of Western Marxism: ideology, critique, reification, instrumental reason, the…
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University of California-Riverside · Philosophy
1.4% of University of California-Riverside's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
0%20%
Where Philosophy courses fall
0%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
67%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Philosophy
, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. An exploration of the ways in which feminist theory provides insight on contemporary issues in bioethics. Topics…
Philosophy
, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour; Prerequisite(s): none. Introduction to the philosophy of race from classical theorists to contemporary critical race theory. Topics covered include the Enlightenment, discussions of race in the founding of the…
Furthest-right subjects
None. University of California-Riverside Philosophy has 6 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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-Riverside · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 1.4 | — | 74 | — |
| Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.7 | 2.4 – 3.1 | 7,780 | — |
- 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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