Art & Art History
Undergraduate course discussing various theoretical approaches that have shaped disciplinary perspectives and practices in art history. Introduction to particular types of methodologies (e.g. Marxism, feminism, race and gender,…
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Duke · Art & Art History
0% of Duke's Art & Art History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Art & Art History departments, it is 3.8%.
0%20%
Where Art & Art History courses fall
0%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
43%Center-left59–74
43%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Art & Art History
The lives of women in the Classical world viewed through the visual culture of Classical art. Through images of women in statues, reliefs, coins, and painting, the course explores the role of visual representation in communicating complex…
Art & Art History
This course studies the artistic representations of the human body in many guises: aesthetic, political, social, cultural, and erotic. It analyses the different strategies artists deployed to develop rhetorics of the body both physical and…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Duke Art & Art History has 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke · Art & Art History | bias_left_share | 0 | — | 164 | — |
| 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.