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Williams College · Art & Art History

16.8% of Williams 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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Williams College: 16.8% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

5%Far left92–100
44%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
5%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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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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

ARTS 308 · Contemporary methodologies in History and Practice93

Art & Art History

Cross-listings: ARTH 307 Secondary Cross-listing This course explores contemporary methodologies that traverse both collective research and artistic production, providing an overview of theoretical and practical frameworks in contemporary…

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ARTH 428 · Anticolonial Approaches to the Arts of Ancestral Indigenous Americans92

Art & Art History

Cross-listings: AMST 427 Primary Cross-listing Approaches to the study of the arts of Ancestral Americans have traditionally emanated in both their conceptions and practices from settler colonialism, resulting in often hostile relations…

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ARTH 504 · Proseminar in Research and Method88

Art & Art History

In this graduate Proseminar on Research and Method, we will read a number of texts that form the foundation of art history as a discipline, including the writings of Plato, Panofsky, Lessing, Heidegger, Wölfflin, and Barthes (among others).…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 403 · Clark Visiting Professor Seminar: Fascism and Art0

Art & Art History

Cross-listings: Secondary Cross-listing This course examines the complex and multifarious relations between art and fascism in interwar Europe, focusing on the cultural politics and the use of art in fascist movements and regimes,…

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ARTH 503 · Clark Visiting Professor Seminar: Fascism and Art7

Art & Art History

Cross-listings: Primary Cross-listing This course examines the complex and multifarious relations between art and fascism in interwar Europe, focusing on the cultural politics and the use of art in fascist movements and regimes,…

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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
Williams College · Art & Art Historybias_left_share16.8—161—
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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