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University of California-Santa Barbara · Ethnic & African American Studies

17.0% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Ethnic & African American Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Ethnic & African American Studies departments, it is 24.7%.

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University of California-Santa Barbara: 17.0% Ethnic & African American Studies at all 100 schools: 24.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Ethnic & African American Studies courses fall

2%Far left92–100

18%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

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

Furthest left

BL ST 117 · Slavery and Modernity94

Ethnic & African American Studies

An interdisciplinary examination of Black slavery as both a historical event and an enduring condition. The course highlights the foundational role of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade in the making of European modernity, the…

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BL ST 129 · Black Cities: Spatial Politics of Violence, Power and Resistance83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Examines spatial dynamics of anti-Blackness and spatial politics of resistance in relational and comparative geographical perspectives. Study of colonial histories of spatial violence and current patterns of residential segregation,…

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CH ST 190 · El Plan de Santa Barbara, El Centro Arnulfo Casillas, and UCSB Chicanx/Latinx Student Activism, 1960s-Present83

Ethnic & African American Studies

Examines the history of UCSB Chicanx/Latinx student activism on campus from the late 1960s until the present. Starting with the April 1969 El Plan de Santa Barbara conference, the class examines critical events such as the 1968 and 1975…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Ethnic & African American Studies has 55 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 · Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	17.0	—	324	—
Ethnic & African American Studies	bias_left_share	24.7	23.7 – 25.6	7,955	—

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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