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
18 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.
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
ART 126 · Introduction to Contemporary Theory83
Art & Art History
A basic beginning survey of contemporary art, film and media theory, focusing specifically on: realism, formalism, semiotics, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, gender/queer studies, poststructuralism, post-colonial theory…
In-depth look at contemporary media and art discourse framed through a wide range of theoretical approaches: formalism, structuralism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Marxism, gender and queer studies, poststructuralism, postcolonial theory,…
ARTHI 148A · Contemporary Art History: 1960-200078
Art & Art History
Study of recent artistic developments from 1960 until 2000. Movements studied include minimalism, conceptual art, earthworks, feminist art, AIDS activism, identity politics, the use of new media and technology (video, digital media) in…
Examination of architecture, urbanism and the land scape of British and French colonialism between 1600 and 1950. Introduction to the different forms of colonialism, colonial ideology and the architecture of colonial encounter in North America, Asia, Africa and Australia.
ARTHI 142A · Architecture and Planning in Seventeenth-Century Europe17
Art & Art History
How did major changes in politics, science, and religion (absolutism, Scientific Revolution, Counter Reformation) manifest themselves in contemporary architecture and town planning? Architects include Bernini, Borromini, Wren, Mansart. Focus on Rome, Turin, Paris, and London.
Introduces the modern history of spaces that have supported the production, supply, and consumption of food since the 19th-c within the global exchange of ideas, commodities, and dissemination of foodways under the aegis of colonialism and…
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.
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University of California-Santa Barbara · Art & Art History
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.