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University of California-Santa Barbara · History

4.2% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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-Santa Barbara: 4.2% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
12%Left75–91
82%Center-left59–74
6%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
17 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

HIST 124C · Sex, Gender, and Settler Colonialism88

History

Examines how sex and gender legitimized the process of settler colonial rule across the globe. Students interrogate the ways that ideas about sex and gender privileged particular selves at the expense of others in the Americas, Africa,…

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HIST 153M · Tools for Healing from Global Race-Making78

History

This course explores and seeks to undo the severe impact the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and enslavement of African men, women, and children in the Americas did to collective perceptions about worth, dignity, gender, and race, in the…

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HIST 158A · Racism, Political Economy, and Public Policy in Modern U.S. History72

History

How has modern U.S. public policy been shaped by issues of racism and inequality? This course investigates the histories of public policies around housing, access to meaningful education, labor markets, imprisonment, environmental justice,…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara History has 17 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of California-Santa Barbara · Historybias_left_share4.2—402—
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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