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Amherst College · Art & Art History

5.7% of Amherst College's Art & Art History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Art & Art History departments, it is 3.8%.

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Amherst College: 5.7% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
3 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ARHA 126 · Terrible Beauty: Early Modern European Art and Architecture72

Art & Art History

(Offered as ARHA 126, ARCH 126, and EUST 126) In this course, we will explore the environments, materials, and representations of the early modern European world. Taking an expansive view, we will look at a wide range of European objects…

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ARHA 282 · The Model's Gaze72

Art & Art History

(Offered as ARHA 282 and SWAG 282) What does European art history look like when seen from models' perspectives? Starting in the Renaissance, the ability to convincingly depict the human form became regarded as the height of artistic…

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ARHA 338 · Art/Work: Labor and Materials in early Modern European Art61

Art & Art History

(Offered as ARHA 338 and EUST 338) What is the "work" of an artwork? What roles do labor and materials play in the meaning and aesthetics of art objects? This course will consider these questions in the art history of early modern Europe,…

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Furthest right

None. Amherst College Art & Art History has 3 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Amherst College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share5.7—53—
Art & Art Historybias_left_share3.83.5 – 4.214,866—
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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