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Santa Clara University · Art & Art History

2.3% of Santa Clara 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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Santa Clara University: 2.3% 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
40%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 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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FramingSubject

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

ARTS 26 · Art! Making China Modern78

Art & Art History

On the long march from dynastic regime to global power, art made China modern on its own terms. In the 19th century writers, politicians, and revolutionaries looked to Japan and Europe to learn how art could renovate the nation. After WWI,…

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ARTS 143 · Women's Work: American Women in the Visual Arts75

Art & Art History

From colonial times to the ongoing feminist revolution of the present, American women made, sold, collected, and supported visual art, and in so doing profoundly influenced the development of the nation's culture, art, and art institutions.…

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ARTS 121 · Women Artists of Venice67

Art & Art History

This course examines the substantial, and too often overlooked careers and contributions of women artists in early modern Venice. Surveying the period from approximately 1400-1750. Topics for consideration include artistic training for…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Santa Clara University Art & Art History has 5 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
Santa Clara University · Art & Art Historybias_left_share2.3—87—
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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