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University of California-San Diego · History

4.5% of University of California-San Diego's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of California-San Diego: 4.5% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

7%Far left92–100

34%Left75–91

25%Center-left59–74

17%Center42–58

8%Center-right26–41

5%Right9–25

3%Far right0–8

87 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

HIEA 132 · Mao’s China, 1949–1976100

History

This course analyzes the history of the PRC from 1949 to the present. Special emphasis is placed on the problem of postrevolutionary institutionalization, the role of ideology, the tension between city and countryside, Maoism, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution.

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HIEU 114 · The History of the Soviet Union and Russia, 1917 to the Present100

History

The Bolshevik revolution was supposed to change humanity. Led by Vladimir Lenin and perverted by Joseph Stalin, the USSR defeated Nazism in World War II and challenged the U.S. throughout the Cold War. It then collapsed, transitioning from…

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HIUS 119 · Colonialism and Militarism in Hawaii100

History

Examines the history of Hawaii’s colonial present, beginning with incorporation into Euro-American imagining of the Pacific world. The course focuses on how colonialism took root in the nineteenth century and how it manifests in…

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Furthest-right subjects

HIAF 120 · History of South Africa0

History

The origins and the interaction between the peoples of South Africa. Special attention will be devoted to industrial development, urbanization, African and Afrikaner nationalism, and the origin and development of apartheid and its consequences.

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HIEU 158 · Why Hitler? How Auschwitz?0

History

Why did Germany in 1919 produce an Adolf Hitler; how did the Nazis take power in 1933; and why did the Third Reich last until 1945? Why did the war against the Jews become industrial and absolute?

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HILD 7A · Race and Ethnicity in the United States0

History

A lecture-discussion course on the comparative ethnic history of the United States. Of central concern will be the African American, slavery, race, oppression, mass migrations, ethnicity, city life in industrial America, and power and protest in modern America.

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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-San Diego · History	bias_left_share	4.5	—	352	—
History	bias_left_share	8.3	7.9 – 8.7	17,232	—

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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