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Hamilton College · Art & Art History

9.5% of Hamilton 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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Hamilton College: 9.5% 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
33%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
17%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

ARTH 213 · Queer Theory in Art and Visual Culture83

Art & Art History

This course introduces key concepts in queer, queer of color, trans, and crip theory. Tracing queerness as an activity of radical questioning, this class studies visual practices that challenge visibility and how we see art and media from…

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ARTH 231 · Art & Feminism83

Art & Art History

This course examines the ways feminist ideas have challenged us to re-think art & art history, both past & present, particularly with respect to feminism's mandate to consider race, class, sexuality, and other aspects of social location…

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ARTH 320 · Race and Racism in the Middle Ages78

Art & Art History

How can we learn from the pre-modern past to make sense of our current world? This writing-intensive course critically studies the structures and operations of exclusion in the Middle Ages through art and visual culture. Students will…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 237 · Visual Culture of World War II10

Art & Art History

An examination of art and media from the rise of fascism in the 1920s and the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to postwar reconstruction and the entrenchment of the Cold War in the 1950s. We will study a range of visual material - including…

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ARTH 312 · Building Fascism: History and Critique of Far-Right Architecture10

Art & Art History

Since the popularization of fascism as a political ideology in early 20th-century Europe, its ideologues have used the built environment to achieve political consensus and perpetrate violence. Mussolini and Hitler pursued modernist…

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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
Hamilton College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share9.5—84—
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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