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Vassar College · Art & Art History

7.2% of Vassar 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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Vassar College: 7.2% 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
0%Left75–91
83%Center-left59–74
17%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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Furthest left

ART 387 · City and Country: New York and the Hudson Valley70

Art & Art History

Semester Offered: Spring 0.5 unit(s) The year 2025 marks the 200 th anniversary of Thomas Cole's first trip up the Hudson River, the mythic "origin story" of the so-called Hudson River School of painters. New York-based artists like Cole,…

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ART 323 · Visualizing Abolition62

Art & Art History

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 323 ) What allows for some former plantations, prisons, and jails to achieve the distinguished status of heritage site while other similar places are simply razed and forgotten? This…

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ART 370 · Seminar in Architectural History62

Art & Art History

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as URBS 370 ) This seminar provides an in-depth overview and analysis of major projects, urban landscapes, and topics in Latin American architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century. Starting from…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College 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
Vassar College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share7.2—83—
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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