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Boston College · Art & Art History

3.5% of Boston 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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Boston College: 3.5% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

14%Far left92–100

43%Left75–91

14%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

29%Far right0–8

7 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

ARTH 2258 · Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-194593

Art & Art History

In this introductory course we will unpack some of the crucial episodes in art of the first half of the twentieth century, including Italian Futurism, international Dada, Surrealism, De Stijl, the Harlem Renaissance, and Mexican Muralism.…

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ARTH 3010 · Introduction to Contemporary Art83

Art & Art History

This course traces art since roughly 1975, focusing primarily on Europe and the Americas in a global context. Rather than a strict survey, it looks closely at the key techniques, ideas, and debates conditioning contemporary art. We begin…

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ARTH 1110 · Imperial Designs: Art and Rivalry in the Eastern Mediterranean Frontier78

Art & Art History

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ARTH1110 and HIST1723. Who owns the past and its artifacts? In this course pairing, we will examine the enduring ideas of empires and their challengers…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 4427 · Early Medieval Art in Ireland and Britain0

Art & Art History

The course will examine the development of art in Ireland and Britain in the Early Medieval period and the production of Irish and English missionaries on the Continent. Emphasis will be placed on the following: 1. manuscripts, sculpture,…

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ARTH 4316 · History of Scientific Illustration8

Art & Art History

What role do images play in the production of scientific knowledge? This course explores the different ways artists, scientists, and philosophers have answered this question from the Scientific Revolution to the present. We will adopt a…

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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
Boston College · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	3.5	—	86	—
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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