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University of California-Riverside · Religious Studies

5.5% of University of California-Riverside's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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University of California-Riverside: 5.5% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

4%Far left92–100

46%Left75–91

21%Center-left59–74

13%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

13%Right9–25

4%Far right0–8

24 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

RLST 103 · Decolonizing Religion92

Religious Studies

, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours; research, 2 hours; term paper, 1 hour; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior. Introduces the constitution of the Western category of religion…

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RLST 153 · Religion and Social Justice90

Religious Studies

, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): GSST 001 or GSST 001H or GSST 001S or RLST 001 or RLST 001H or RLST 002 or RLST 003 or RLST 005 or RLST 005H or RLST 007 or RLST 007H or RLST 010 or RLST 012 or ETST 012 or RLST 012H or…

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RLST 152 · Religion and Opression85

Religious Studies

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Furthest-right subjects

RLST 127 · The Holocaust0

Religious Studies

, 3 hours; research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper- division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. Surveys the history of the “Jewish Question”; Jewish-Christian relations;…

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RLST 173 · Political Religions and Religious Politics17

Religious Studies

, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigation of major themes and issues in the intersection of religion and politics, such as the sacralization of politics, religious…

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RLST 200A · Religion, Politics, and Public Discourse17

Religious Studies

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor; consent of graduate advisor is required for students repeating the course. Critical examination of the intersections of religious identities and…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California-Riverside · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	5.5	—	109	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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