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University of California-Santa Barbara · Philosophy

0% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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University of California-Santa Barbara: 0% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
83%Left75–91
17%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 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.

Furthest-left subjects

PHIL 228G · Feminist Philosophy83

Philosophy

A study at the graduate level of philosophical approaches to feminism and feminist issues. Topics covered may include inequality in the workplace and in family structures; global feminism; objectification; pornography; and prostitution.

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PHIL 236G · Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy80

Philosophy

A study at the graduate level on topics in feminist philosophy, sometimes covering one topic or one author over the course. Content will vary but may include contemporary debates, such as gender, pornography, consent, single authors such as…

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PHIL 128 · Feminist Philosophy75

Philosophy

In this course, we examine philosophical approaches to feminism and feminist issues. Topics covered may include inequality in the workplace and in family structures; global feminism; objectification; pornography; and prostitution.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Philosophy has 6 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of California-Santa Barbara · Philosophybias_left_share0—94—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
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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