6.5% of Brown University'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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Brown University: 6.5% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison
28 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.
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
HIAA 1627 · Material Histories of American Capitalism85
Art & Art History
Political upheavals of the last decade have re-centered capitalism as a social ill, at the root of our current climate crisis, racial and gendered inequality, and the alienating experience of work and life in the 21st century. But how did…
HIAA 1012 · Art History Detectives: The Case of the Black Gospel83
Art & Art History
window. Students will study the intersection between art, culture, and geopolitics through the lens of art theft. While the course will introduce the history of art theft in general from Napoleon to the Nazis and the Koh-i-Noor Diamond to…
HIAA 1626 · Settler-Colonial Placemaking: From Vikings to the83
Art & Art History
Homestead Act. The term “settler colonialism” has become popular in recent years to define a spatialized structure of inequality between settler societies and Indigenous peoples. What exactly defines a “settler” in this context? What…
HIAA 1770 · Architecture and Visual Culture of Empire17
Art & Art History
This combined undergraduate and graduate seminar examines important urban and architectural concepts and practices that accompanied the expansion of colonial rule across much of the world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics to be…
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.
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.