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University of California-Santa Barbara · Religious Studies

2.0% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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University of California-Santa Barbara: 2.0% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

14%Left75–91

86%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

7 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

RG ST 29 · Patriarchy and Religion: A Global Perspective75

Religious Studies

Explores the intricate relationship between religion and patriarchy. We will investigate how various religious traditions and belief systems have historically influenced and perpetuated patriarchal structures and norms. Additionally, we…

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RG ST 200RR · Race & Religion69

Religious Studies

This seminar interrogates the concept of "race" as an essential category of analysis for the study of religion. The genealogy of "race" as co-constitutive with "religion" in the west is considered. The course also examines adjacent concepts…

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RG ST 110E · Mexican and Chicana Spiritualism65

Religious Studies

Course addresses the religious history of indigenous women in Mexico and Chicanas in the American Southwest. Current survival issues - freedom of religion, land claims, environmental racism, sexism, inappropriate health care, education, and…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Religious Studies has 7 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 · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	2.0	—	354	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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