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University of California-Santa Barbara · Women's & Gender Studies

20.8% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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University of California-Santa Barbara: 20.8% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
27%Left75–91
73%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 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

FEMST 183 · Feminist ACTion Lab: Antiracist Critical Theorizing-in-Action82

Women's & Gender Studies

This course promotes an understanding of social factors that shape our society and centers community-derived responses to inequalities. Students engage in feminist anti-racist, decolonial, and Indigenous methodologies that encourage…

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FEMST 60 · Women of Color: Race, Class, and Ethnicity82

Women's & Gender Studies

Examination of the interlocking dynamics and politics of gender, race, sexuality, class, and culture in the experience of U.S. women of color. Readings focus on oppositional consciousness and resistance to oppression in the scholarship and literature by women of color.

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FEMST 144 · Representation and Activism75

Women's & Gender Studies

Exploration of the strategies by which social groups resist systems of oppression through readings and works from independent filmmakers.

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Women's & Gender Studies has 11 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 · Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share20.8—53—
Women's & Gender Studiesbias_left_share34.533.0 – 36.03,812—
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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