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College of William and Mary · Art & Art History

0% of College of William and Mary'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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College of William and Mary: 0% 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
0%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
50%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
2 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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FramingSubject

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 383 · American Art since 190067

Art & Art History

Credits: (3) Domain (Anchored): ALV Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI North American Art from 1913 to the present , emphasizing varieties of Modernism and Postmodernism in relation to politics, industrialism, war, and other historical…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 375 · Cities in the Modern Middle East33

Art & Art History

Credits: (3) Domain (Anchored): ALV Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI An exploration of critical events and urban planning schemes that have shaped cities in the Middle East and North Africa since the 1850s. Representative cities…

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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
College of William and Mary · Art & Art Historybias_left_share0—49—
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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