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Carnegie Mellon University · Art & Art History

6.6% of Carnegie Mellon University'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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Carnegie Mellon University: 6.6% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

38%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
13%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%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

60-374 · Critical Studies: Picturing Asian America94

Art & Art History

Asian American art is not Asian art. Asian art is not Asian American art. The conditions in which we make art in the United States have always been unique: our art has evolved to be antiracist, anti-patriarchal, and for the sake of the…

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60-364 · Critical Studies: Decolonize Now!92

Art & Art History

This course explores ways to "delink" artmaking and its history from the "colonial matrix of power." Examining critical discourses surrounding decoloniality, as well as post-coloniality, students will test and complicate foundational…

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60-372 · Critical Studies: The Precarious Body in Contemporary Art92

Art & Art History

This seminar will examine images and projects in contemporary art that deal with debates concerning ideas that had already begun brewing in the 1980s and early 90s, that addressed issues of institutional violence circulating under the guise…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Carnegie Mellon University Art & Art History has 8 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Carnegie Mellon University · Art & Art Historybias_left_share6.6—122—
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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