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University of California-Santa Cruz · Political Science

6.0% of University of California-Santa Cruz'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 Cruz: 6.0% 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

8 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

POLI 189 · Pandemics, Politics, and Global and Community Health74

Political Science

Examines the lessons for global and community health that are emerging from our experiences of COVID. These experiences have been characterized by vast variations in exposure and vulnerability as well as wide variations in response and…

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POLI 145 · Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Politics, Society, and Culture72

Political Science

Introduces the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on the case of the Palestinian citizens of Israel.‎ After the 1948 war, many Palestinians were ‎‎dispossessed of their lands and deported to Arab countries, and the Palestinians who…

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POLI 121 · Racism & Justice in America70

Political Science

Examines racism as a logic of governance in American politics and traces racial reasoning in transcendent notions of "justice" in the U.S. from the nation's founding into the 21st century. (Formerly offered as Race & Justice in America.)

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Cruz Political Science has 8 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 Cruz · Political Science	bias_left_share	6.0	—	133	—
Political Science	bias_left_share	5.2	4.8 – 5.6	12,053	—

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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