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Rice University · Art & Art History

6.1% of Rice 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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Rice University: 6.1% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

10%Far left92–100
45%Left75–91
34%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
29 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

HART 204 · INTRODUCTION TO BLACK ART IN AMERICA: 1900S TO TODAY92

Art & Art History

This class examines the history of Black art in America since the early 1900s. What is Black Art? Who are the artists, curators, scholars, and theorists who have asked and answered this question over the decades? Is a Black aesthetic…

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HART 305 · POST WAR: ART IN EUROPE, 1945-200092

Art & Art History

This course will examine the heterodox individual artistic practices and movements in post-World-War Two Europe. Focusing on the countries of France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, England, and the Soviet Union, particular…

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HART 505 · POST WAR: ART IN EUROPE, 1945-200092

Art & Art History

This course will examine the heterodox individual artistic practices and movements in post-World-War Two Europe. Focusing on the countries of France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, England, and the Soviet Union, particular…

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Furthest-right subjects

HART 398 · FROM EXPRESSIONISM TO FASCISM: ART AND FILM IN GERMANY12

Art & Art History

Focusing on the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, this class will examine art and film in Germany from the birth of Expressionism through the end of the Nazi dictatorship. Topics covered will include Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus,…

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HART 531 · BRITISH ART AND AESTHETICS, 1700-190017

Art & Art History

This seminar will introduce students to British art and aesthetic theory from roughly 1700-1900. Although the primary focus of the class will be on artists, writers, philosophers, and critics based in the metropole, the larger scope of the…

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HART 596 · FROM EXPRESSIONISM TO FASCISM: ART AND FILM IN GERMANY17

Art & Art History

Focusing on the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, this class will examine art and film in Germany from the birth of Expressionism through the end of the Nazi dictatorship. Topics covered will include Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus,…

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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
Rice University · Art & Art Historybias_left_share6.1—245—
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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