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

42.4% of University of California-Santa Cruz'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 Cruz: 42.4% Women's & Gender Studies at all 100 schools: 34.5% each other school in the comparison

Where Women's & Gender Studies courses fall

10%Far left92–100

72%Left75–91

17%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

69 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

FMST 71 · Introduction to Visualizing Abolition Studies100

Women's & Gender Studies

Why has the proliferation of research on prisons-demonstrating economic and racial disparities, as well as negative effects on individuals and communities-not led to more substantial questioning of public policy that treats imprisonment as…

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FMST 194V · Marxism and Feminism96

Women's & Gender Studies

Explores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry.

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FMST 213 · Colonialism, Racial Capitalism and Surveillance95

Women's & Gender Studies

Course asks students to consider surveillance technologies beyond the history of modernity and the rise of bureaucratic governance as well as the framework of liberal understandings of the right to privacy. Instead, students examine the…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-Santa Cruz Women's & Gender Studies has 69 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 Cruz · Women's & Gender Studies	bias_left_share	42.4	—	85	—
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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