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University of California-Santa Cruz · Philosophy

0% of University of California-Santa Cruz's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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University of California-Santa Cruz: 0% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

14%Far left92–100

43%Left75–91

29%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

7 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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Framing Subject

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.

Furthest-left subjects

PHIL 145 · Political Philosophy after 1968100

Philosophy

Traces developments in philosophy and social theory after 1968, when the form of labor and capital's relation changed radically (through offshoring and automation) by reading widely in critical philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, and…

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PHIL 17 · Feminist Philosophy83

Philosophy

Introduction to feminist philosophy. The topics may include (but are not limited to) oppression, normalization, discrimination, objectification, misogyny, androcentrism, patriarchy, the sex-gender distinction, sexed embodiment, gendered…

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PHIL 26 · Existentialism and After75

Philosophy

A survey of recent movements in European thought, such as phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, continental feminism, and poststructuralism, with some attention to their 19th-century precursors. Selections from major…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-Santa Cruz Philosophy has 6 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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 Cruz · Philosophy	bias_left_share	0	—	87	—
Philosophy	bias_left_share	2.7	2.4 – 3.1	7,780	—

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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