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Swarthmore College · Art & Art History

11.5% of Swarthmore 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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Swarthmore College: 11.5% 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
15%Left75–91
85%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

ARTH 060 · Building New Worlds: The Arts and Architectures of Liberation78

Art & Art History

This mid-level course examines the legacies of artists and architects who, since the 1960s, have relied on the power of cultural work in struggles for racial emancipation. It centers the contributions to the fields of socially engaged art…

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ARTH 079 · Indigenous Arts of the Americas76

Art & Art History

Cross-Listed with (ENVS 056A) This survey course introduces students to Indigenous art and architecture of the Americas from time immemorial to the present. It selectively surveys the visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of Americas, with…

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ARTH 007 · Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art73

Art & Art History

This course examines the diverse styles and histories of modern and contemporary Indigenous art. Focusing on global contexts, including the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand, we will examine how art is a material form through which…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College Art & Art History has 13 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Swarthmore College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share11.5—113—
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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