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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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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Where Art & Art History courses fall
0%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
10%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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 & 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…
Art & Art History
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as Topic for 2024/25a: The World Picture. (Same as MEDS 364 and URBS 364 ) What defines a world? Increasingly the work of art is asked to take on this question, which for centuries had belonged to…
Furthest-right subjects
Art & Art History
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) This course is an examination of the visual and material cultures of the Dutch Republic in the context of early modern transcultural exchange. In the long seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic, a new…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar College · Art & Art History | bias_left_share | 7.2 | — | 83 | — |
| 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.