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University of Washington · Art & Art History

2.2% of University of Washington'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 Washington: 2.2% 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
33%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
17%Far right0–8
6 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

ART H 270 · Art/Identity Politics: Issues of Representations in Contemporary Art83

Art & Art History

A&H, DIV Explores how contemporary artists have deconstructed cultural misrepresentations of gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity, and have developed alternative representations that embrace diversity and difference.

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ART H 320 · Facing America: Race and Representation in the U.S.75

Art & Art History

SSc/A&H, DIV Art's role in inventing ideas about racial difference in the U.S. from the 1600s to the present. Considers the role and display of visual art in inscribing and at times challenging racial hierarchies.

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ART H 347 · Pompeii: A Time Capsule of Ancient Life67

Art & Art History

A&H/SSc, DIV Explores the power differential between men and women, slaves and masters, and citizens and foreigners in the cultural melting pot of ancient Pompeii, which was preserved by a volcanic eruption in 79 CE. Graffiti, skeletal…

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Furthest-right subjects

ART H 495 · Italian Fascism: Architecture and Power8

Art & Art History

A&H/SSc Fascism in Italy as studied within the broader European context of nationalism, imperialism, and modernization, with particular emphasis on the arts - literature, film, architecture, and urbanism.

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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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Washington · Art & Art Historybias_left_share2.2—89—
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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