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University of California-Los Angeles · History

3.8% of University of California-Los Angeles's History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' History departments, it is 8.3%.

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University of California-Los Angeles: 3.8% History at all 100 schools: 8.3% each other school in the comparison

Where History courses fall

8%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
21%Center-left59–74
21%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
15%Right9–25
9%Far right0–8
53 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

History 120D · Film and History: Central and Eastern Europe, 1945 to 1989100

History

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Postwar history of central and eastern Europe (1945 to 1989), using eight Czech, Polish, and Hungarian films to explore life under state socialist…

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History 127C · History of Russia: Revolutionary Russia and Soviet Union100

History

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Revolutions of 1917, Civil War, consolidation of Bolshevik Regime; succession crisis and ascendancy of Stalin, collectivization and…

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History 256C · Political Economy of Race94

History

(Same as African American Studies M200B.) Seminar, four hours. Examination of historiography of history of capitalism and history of African diaspora, especially in their overlapping concerns with organization of race and racial states in…

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Furthest-right subjects

History 150C · Introduction to Afro-American History0

History

(Same as African American Studies M158C.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of Afro-American experience, with emphasis on three great transitions of Afro-American life:…

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History 164D · Topics in African History: Africa and Diaspora in Global and Comparative Perspective0

History

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: one prior course in African history at UCLA. Designed for juniors/seniors. Forced migration of Africans through overseas slave trade was formative event of modern…

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History 183A · Third Reich and Jews0

History

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. History of modern anti-Semitic ideologies and movements. Rise of national socialism in Germany. Development and execution of Nazi anti-Jewish policy…

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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-Los Angeles · Historybias_left_share3.8—320—
Historybias_left_share8.37.9 – 8.717,232—
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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