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Bowdoin College · Art & Art History

9.2% of Bowdoin 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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Bowdoin College: 9.2% 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
25%Left75–91
63%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
13%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 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

ARTH 2330 · (c, VPA) Materializing the Self and Other in Early Modern Art83

Art & Art History

Focuses on art produced through Europe's engagement with the Americas, Africa, and Asia between 1500 and 1750. Studies the impact of trade, colonization, and enslavement on how artists, audiences, and patrons defined and reimagined…

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ARTH 3490 · (c, IP, VPA) Re-mapping Global Contemporary Art82

Art & Art History

Studies competing claims over what it means for contemporary art to be called global. In particular, traces how the controversial category of "global contemporary art" has been used to both perpetuate and resist Western-centered views of…

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ARTH 2510 · (c, VPA) Industry and Imperialism: Nineteenth-Century British Art72

Art & Art History

Examines art produced during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901). The Industrial Revolution gave rise to mass culture and consumer society as well as unprecedented amounts of pollution and environmental damage; the twin engines of capitalism…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 2190 · (c, IP, VPA) Culture and Crisis in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art17

Art & Art History

In the late nineteenth and throughout the twentieth century, as Japan transitioned from a feudal society to a modern nation-state, Japanese art was mobilized by the avant-gardes and government alike. Examines the wide variety of formats and…

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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
Bowdoin College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share9.2—76—
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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