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University of California-San Diego · Women's & Gender Studies

33.3% of University of California-San Diego's Women's & Gender Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Women's & Gender Studies departments, it is 34.5%.

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University of California-San Diego: 33.3% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

11%Far left92–100

50%Left75–91

39%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

28 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

CGS 110 · Intersectional Struggles for Environmental Justice100

Women's & Gender Studies

Colonial and capitalist exploitation has left a trail of environmental destruction and devastated communities stretching across the globe. This course will apply an intersectional lens to analyzing racialized, gendered extractivist…

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CGS 120 · Capitalism and Gender94

Women's & Gender Studies

(Cross-listed with ANSC 180.) Drawing insight from anticolonial 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…

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CGS 150 · Visuality, Sexuality, and Race92

Women's & Gender Studies

(Cross-listed with ETHN 150.) Examines the role of the visual in power relations; the production of what we see regarding race and sexuality; the interconnected history of the caste system, plantation slavery, visuality and contemporary…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-San Diego Women's & Gender Studies has 28 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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-San Diego · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	33.3	—	42	—
Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	34.5	33.0 – 36.0	3,812	—

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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