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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

40%Left75–91

55%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

5%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

20 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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Framing Subject

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

ARTH 060 · Building New Worlds: The Arts and Architectures of Liberation88

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 065 · Land Back!: Visual Expressions of Global Indigenous Sovereignty88

Art & Art History

Cross-listed: ENVS: 056B The "Land Back" movement is an Indigenous-led campaign that in recent years has emerged as a prominent focal point for establishing Indigenous political authority over territories once claimed and controlled by…

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ARTH 079 · Indigenous Arts of the Americas85

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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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 001P · First-Year Seminar: Objects of Empire: The Global Arts of the Early-Modern World17

Art & Art History

This class seeks to understand the so called "Age of Discovery" (15th- 17th century) through the lens of material culture, looking at the objects that motivated and facilitated European imperial expansion as well as those that negotiated…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Swarthmore College · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	11.5	—	113	—
Art & Art History	bias_left_share	3.8	3.5 – 4.2	14,866	—

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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