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University of California-Santa Barbara · Art & Art History

2.3% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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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University of California-Santa Barbara: 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
0%Left75–91
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 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

ART 185BD · Special Topics: Black Focus Environmental Design Justice: Relocalizing Leimert Park65

Art & Art History

This Black Design focus course introduces new approaches and practice-based design strategies to studio-driven student research to address the pressing issues surrounding social justice and environmental sustainability. Students from both…

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ART 120SE · Intermediate Photography62

Art & Art History

Building on he tools of lower division photo and the skills learned in other intermediate photo courses, SE links social issues such as mass incarceration, poverty, LGBTQ rights, racism, environmental justice and gives you the framework to…

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ARTHI 123D · Art of Colonial Mexico62

Art & Art History

This advanced survey explores the art of colonial Mexico, or New Spain, from the 16th through 18th centuries and focuses on art and architectures role in forming a colonial society. We discuss Indigenous experiences of colonialism and forms…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara Art & Art History has 6 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
University of California-Santa Barbara · Art & Art Historybias_left_share2.3—257—
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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