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University of California-Davis's course descriptions average 64 on the 100-to-0 ruler: clearly left of center. Across all 100 schools, the average is 67.5, so University of California-Davis reads 3.5 points further right.

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Liberal (100)center (50)Conservative (0)

University of California-Davis: 64 (likely range 61.8 to 66.2) All 100 schools: 67.5 each other school in the comparison

Where its courses fall

0%Far left92–100

8%Left75–91

79%Center-left59–74

13%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

24 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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

Furthest left

CHI 136 · Critical & Abolitionist Pedagogies78

Ethnic & African American Studies

How marginalized groups conceptualize learning and teaching as a practice of freedom. Foundational text and concepts in critical pedagogy. Diverse and intersecting intellectual traditions that inform how oppressed peoples use education as a tool of liberation.

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WMS 138 · Critical Fashion Studies75

Women's & Gender Studies

Feminist cultural studies of style-fashion-dress through transnational circuits, personal subjectivities. Fashion as means of gender oppression and liberation. Histories and discourses of masculinities and femininities. Clothing works on…

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ANT 111 · Science & Race72

Anthropology

Race and racial formations in science, technology, and medicine. History of racial thought in scientific and medical research; colonial and decolonial modes of knowledge production; the racialization of technology; intersectional approaches…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Davis has 24 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Political lean of course descriptions. Average Framing score (0 = far right, 50 = center, 100 = far left) of the scored courses in the group.

50 is the survey-anchored center of US adults on each issue (the "moderate" place of the ANES/GSS/PRRI seven-label ruler), not the cohort midpoint; scores above 50 read leftward, below 50 rightward.

Counted: courses with a Framing score (categories L/R/B/C). The likely range (95% interval) is 61.8 to 66.2; a comparison whose range overlaps this one is not a reliable difference.

Only 24 of University of California-Davis's descriptions carried a scorable lean, so this average and its rank are rough; the interval is the honest range.
Most course descriptions carry no political lean at all and are not in this average; the "share described from the left" view counts them.
Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

University of California-Davis by department (share of courses described from the left)

Department	Left-framed share	Courses
Women's & Gender Studies	28.6%	14	view
Sociology	8.9%	79	view
Ethnic & African American Studies	4.9%	102	view
Anthropology	2.2%	92	view
English & Comparative Literature	1.9%	154	view
Political Science	1.2%	82	view
Art & Art History	1.1%	92	view
History	1.1%	95	view
Economics	0%	70	view
Philosophy	0%	70	view
Psychology	0%	68	view
Religious Studies	0%	75	view

Lean (mean Framing score) is not published per department within a school; only the left-framed share is. Department rows carry no interval.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California-Davis	mean_bias_score	64	61.8 – 66.2	993	24
All 100 schools	mean_bias_score	67.5	67.4 – 67.7	124,290	10,124

Formula: SUM(bias_score) / COUNT(bias_score)
Interval: normal approximation: mean +/- 1.96 * sd / sqrt(n), sample sd (n-1); undefined when n < 2
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Scored courses only (L/R/B/C); N and I carry no score and are excluded, so n here is smaller than the group's course count. Scores are model readings of catalog description text against a fixed anchored definition, not teaching or syllabi. The interval covers sampling noise in the mean only; it does not represent model reading error. Every value carries a `method` label: exact_rows or histogram_midpoint.

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