Political Science
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Critical analysis of origins, nature, and development of Marxist political theory. P/NP or letter grading.
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University of California-Los Angeles · Political Science
2.8% of University of California-Los Angeles's Political Science course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Political Science departments, it is 5.2%.
0%35%
Where Political Science courses fall
23%Far left92–100
8%Left75–91
54%Center-left59–74
8%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
8%Far right0–8
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
Political Science
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of China’s political and ideological transformation in post-Mao era. Assessment of impact of changing socioeconomic conditions on…
Political Science
Discussion, three hours. Examination of political context and consequences of structural reform in Communist systems; theories of post-Leninist political pluralization and convergence.
Furthest-right subjects
Political Science
Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Historical rise of Fascism in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Eastern Europe; its social support and ideology. Focus on Germany, including Nazi…
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-Los Angeles · Political Science | bias_left_share | 2.8 | — | 144 | — |
| 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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