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Washington University in St. Louis · Art & Art History

4.7% of Washington University in St. Louis'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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Washington University in St. Louis: 4.7% 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

35%Left75–91

56%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

43 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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Framing Subject

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

F20 332R · Race and Design85

Art & Art History

This seminar introduces students to the relationship between race and design in history, theory, and practice. How have racial ideologies shaped the formation of design? How has design mediated the reproduction of racial ideologies across…

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L01 2153 · Topics in African American Studies: Afro-Latin84

Art & Art History

America on Camera In this course, we will see how the camera, in still and moving photography, has served to register blackness in Latin America as a structure, experience, and representation frequently neglected in popular media. Starting…

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F20 178 · Contemporary Discourses: Art + Feminism83

Art & Art History

This course investigates the impact of feminism on contemporary art, focusing on artwork produced between the 1960s and the present day. Through an examination of global practices in a wide range of media, including artworks in the…

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Furthest-right subjects

L01 144 · FYS: Collecting Art/Excluding People: The10

Art & Art History

Contradictions of Chinese Art in U.S. Museums Tomb raiders, curators, archaeologists, politicians, dealers, and collectors all contributed to the arrival of Chinese art in the United States since the late nineteenth century. But at the same…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Washington University in St. Louis · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	4.7	—	686	—
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.

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