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University of California-Santa Cruz · Anthropology

7.3% of University of California-Santa Cruz's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of California-Santa Cruz: 7.3% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

8%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
46%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
4%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
50 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

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

Furthest-left subjects

ANTH 121 · Socialism100

Anthropology

Ethnography-based course that examines the social worlds of socialism, with particular focus on state socialism. Topics include: social problems that inspired socialist movements; implementation and experience of socialism in daily life;…

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ANTH 130S · Ethnography of Russia and Eastern Europe, Abroad100

Anthropology

This study abroad introduces the ethnography of Russia and Eastern Europe, with special attention to lived experience and legacy of state socialism. Topics: effects of socialism, changing economic practices; constructions of new identities;…

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ANTH 130W · Ethnography of Eastern Europe100

Anthropology

Examines daily life in Eastern Europe, especially how residents in this region have navigated the transition from state socialism to accession to the European Union. Topics include: the legacies of state socialism; cultural politics; new…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 130U · Central America25

Anthropology

Draws on political, economic, and anthropological perspectives to analyze the key role of transnationalism and neoliberalism in contemporary Central America. Key topics include: the aftermath of revolutions; labor and gender; indigenous…

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ANTH 110V · American Capitalism33

Anthropology

Capitalism shapes our lives in unequal ways, but what is it? Course explores histories and machinations of capitalism in the Americas, focusing on the United States. Investigates what capitalism is, how it operates, its origins, and what might come next.

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ANTH 128 · Contemporary American Evangelical Cultures33

Anthropology

Study of contemporary, American, born-again Protestant discourse using ethnographic materials and interpretive theories. Topics include biblical literalism, Christian conversion and self-fabulation, charismatic gifts, preaching, sacrificial…

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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 Cruz · Anthropologybias_left_share7.3—247—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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