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Boston College · Art & Art History

3.5% of Boston 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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Boston College: 3.5% 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
67%Left75–91
33%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

ARTH 2258 · Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-194578

Art & Art History

In this introductory course we will unpack some of the crucial episodes in art of the first half of the twentieth century, including Italian Futurism, international Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl, the Harlem Renaissance, and Mexican Muralism.…

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ARTH 1110 · Imperial Designs: Art and Rivalry in the Eastern Mediterranean Frontier75

Art & Art History

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ARTH1110 and HIST1723. Who owns the past and its artifacts? In this course pairing, we will examine the enduring ideas of empires and their challengers…

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ARTH 3010 · Introduction to Contemporary Art72

Art & Art History

This course traces art since roughly 1975, focusing primarily on Europe and the Americas in a global context. Rather than a strict survey, it looks closely at the key techniques, ideas, and debates conditioning contemporary art. We begin…

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Furthest right

None. Boston 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
Boston College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share3.5—86—
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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