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University of California-Santa Barbara · Anthropology

5.5% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of California-Santa Barbara: 5.5% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

22%Left75–91

56%Center-left59–74

22%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

9 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

ANTH 125 · Anthropology of Gender75

Anthropology

The cross-cultural study of gender from a feminist perspective. Topics may include gender, race, and class; gender and nature; gender and the division of labor; gender and kinship; gender and subjectivity; gender and sexuality; gender and…

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ANTH 208 · Anthropological Political Economy75

Anthropology

A Marxist perspective on topics such as: state formation, infrastructure, accumulation, neoliberalism, culture and class, land and labor, structure and process.

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ANTH 148A · Race, Racism and Anti-racism72

Anthropology

Race is an idea about essential human differences that has no scientific foundation in biology, but which nevertheless organizes society and culture at all scales. This course takes a critical look at the race concept, the forms of…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Anthropology has 9 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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-Santa Barbara · Anthropology	bias_left_share	5.5	—	164	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

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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