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Grinnell College · Art & Art History

2.2% of Grinnell 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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Grinnell College: 2.2% 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
50%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 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

ARH 295 · 02 - Special Topic: The Camera and the Body86

Art & Art History

4 credits (Fall) Cross-listed as: AMS 295-01 . This course examines photography's role in the production of authoritative knowledge about the human body in the U.S. - including by advancing pseudoscientific theories of racial hierarchies,…

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ARH 295 · 03 - Special Topic: Haitian Art and Visual Culture83

Art & Art History

4 credits (Spring) This course provides a survey of Haitian art and visual culture from the precolonial era to today, exploring topics such as the Haitian Revolution, Haiti's Indigéniste and modern art movements, urban art and politics. We…

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ARH 231 · From Beasts to Revolutionaries: Modern Art in Europe, 1900-194075

Art & Art History

4 credits (Fall or Spring) An examination of major movements in European art from 1900-1940, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, Constructivism, and Socialist Realism. Focus upon the historical contexts of…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Grinnell College Art & Art History has 6 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
Grinnell College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share2.2—45—
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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