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Columbia University · Art & Art History

8.2% of Columbia 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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Columbia University: 8.2% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

6%Far left92–100

41%Left75–91

53%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

17 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

VIAR AV8313 · Wayfinding in Crisis: Genealogies of Cli92

Art & Art History

“Our violence towards the Earth springs from, and is modeled on, our violence towards other human beings.” — Amitav Ghosh in conversation with Lucia Pietroiusti, Guggenheim Museum, February 5, 2022 Many contemporary artists are trying to…

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AHIS BC3859 · Gender & Sexuality Contemp Art of Americ85

Art & Art History

This seminar examines the changing conceptualizations and theorizations of gender and sex in the contemporary artistic practices of the Americas. Crucial to the constitution of both individual and collective identity, for contemporary…

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AHIS GR8406 · The Museum as History: Modern to Decolon83

Art & Art History

This course analyzes the museum as a historical institution and its evolving role. Beginning with the founding of the “modern” (i.e. public) art museum in 17th and 18th century Europe, it traces the expansion of “encyclopedic” museum from…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Columbia University Art & Art History has 17 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Columbia University · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	8.2	—	170	—
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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