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University of California-Santa Barbara · Political Science

3.9% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.

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University of California-Santa Barbara: 3.9% Political Science at all 100 schools: 5.2% each other school in the comparison

Where Political Science courses fall

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

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

POL S 132 · Politics of the Poor72

Political Science

By drawing on examples from industrializing and post-industrial countries, we will examine a variety of aspects related to the politics of the poor. Some questions we will grapple with include: What does it mean to be poor? How economically…

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POL S 140 · Water Politics67

Political Science

Climate change and rapidly depleting water resources are the biggest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Claims over water by powerful sectors including commercial farming, industrialization and urbanization will get stronger…

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POL S 139 · Gender Rights in World Politics65

Political Science

This class analyzes the state of women’s rights in world politics and how to respond to global challenges. We examine themes from international relations including international political economy, global security, and migration as drivers…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Political Science has 5 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 · Political Sciencebias_left_share3.9—127—
Political Sciencebias_left_share5.24.8 – 5.612,053—
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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