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University of California-San Diego · Anthropology

8.5% of University of California-San Diego's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of California-San Diego: 8.5% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

7%Far left92–100
28%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
9%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
43 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

ANSC 192 · Liberation Bound: Struggles Against Capitalism and Imperialism Worldwide100

Anthropology

Using a variety of sources, this course surveys the varied efforts by people acting in contexts worldwide to overcome capitalist relations and imperial systems and construct new ways of organizing life on the planet. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.

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ANTH 233 · Critical Studies of Capitalism100

Anthropology

This seminar takes up Marx’s varied critiques of capitalist forms, categories, doctrines, practices, and tendencies and brings them to bear on contemporary conditions. In particular, the seminar examines what may be understood as Marx’s…

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ANSC 180 · Capitalism and Gender92

Anthropology

Drawing insight from anti-colonial and queer of color critique, this course critically examines the demands capitalism makes on us to perform gender, and how that relates to processes of exploitation and racialization. We will explore…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANSC 133 · Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East22

Anthropology

This course explores the living structures, family and gender relations, economy, and religion in the Middle East. We will especially focus on how people come to terms with recent transformations such as nationalism, literacy, globalism,…

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ANTH 209 · Archaeology’s Role in Building National Narrative: Israel as a Case Study30

Anthropology

Archaeology played a major role in the early days of the newly founded state of Israel, with many projects aimed at finding evidence for past Jewish presence in the land. Archaeological excavations, some on a national scale, were part of…

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ANSC 154 · Gender and Religion33

Anthropology

This course explores the intersections of religion and gender. Focusing on modern Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, we will address such questions as: How and why are gender and sexuality significant in the context of religious beliefs 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of California-San Diego · Anthropologybias_left_share8.5—270—
Anthropologybias_left_share10.49.8 – 11.19,234—
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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