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Davidson College · Art & Art History

10.9% of Davidson 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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Davidson College: 10.9% 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
36%Left75–91
55%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 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

ART 355 · Black Feminist Art Practices83

Art & Art History

Instructor Villarroel Lamoza A study of the artistic practices of Black feminists throughout the African diaspora.

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ART 140 · Fantasy in Western Art78

Art & Art History

Instructor Corso-Esquivel Art inspires the feeling of wonder. Through the imagination of artists, we can glimpse the awesome, the impossible, and the terrific. However, since artists are of this world, their work draws from historical and…

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ART 234 · Postmodern Art in the US, Europe, and Beyond78

Art & Art History

Instructor Corso-Esquivel By its very name, postmodernism claims to be modernism's successor, but some are not so sure. Is postmodernism, theorists like Jürgen Habermas ask, actually modernism by another name? In this course, we will take a…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Davidson College Art & Art History has 10 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
Davidson College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share10.9—55—
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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