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Harvard University · Art & Art History

7.3% of Harvard 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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Harvard University: 7.3% 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
14%Left75–91
86%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
7 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

HAA 174P · "I can't breathe!" - Tracing the Spatially Suffocated African Diaspora in the Americas83

Art & Art History

The spatial containment, confinement, and control of African American and African Brazilian populations represent a complex trajectory from historical enslavement to contemporary challenges. This course explores the evolution of spatial…

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HAA 172Z · Color in the Era of the Colony70

Art & Art History

This course explores the historical functions and cultural meanings of color in the period of early modernity (18th and early 19th centuries). Focusing on France and England, we will examine specifically the role color played in the…

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HAA 186K · Gender and Art in Japan and Beyond68

Art & Art History

This course examines gender and the production, reception, and interpretation of art in Japan, its diaspora, and global contexts. Organized thematically, it spans from the premodern period to the present day, examining the gendering of…

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Furthest right

None. Harvard University Art & Art History has 7 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
Harvard University · Art & Art Historybias_left_share7.3—96—
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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