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University of California-Santa Barbara · Women's & Gender Studies

20.8% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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-Santa Barbara: 20.8% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

3%Far left92–100

66%Left75–91

31%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

29 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

FEMST 183 · Feminist ACTion Lab: Antiracist Critical Theorizing-in-Action92

Women's & Gender Studies

This course promotes an understanding of social factors that shape our society and centers community-derived responses to inequalities. Students engage in feminist anti-racist, decolonial, and Indigenous methodologies that encourage…

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FEMST 162 · Queer Theory88

Women's & Gender Studies

Introduces some of the key authors and texts in queer theory; assesses its relationship to feminist theory, sexuality studies, and queer activism; explores its critiques of normative models of sex, gender, and sexuality; and examines the…

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FEMST 60 · Women of Color: Race, Class, and Ethnicity88

Women's & Gender Studies

Examination of the interlocking dynamics and politics of gender, race, sexuality, class, and culture in the experience of U.S. women of color. Readings focus on oppositional consciousness and resistance to oppression in the scholarship and literature by women of color.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Women's & Gender Studies has 29 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-Santa Barbara · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	20.8	—	53	—
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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