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Northeastern University · Art & Art History

1.4% of Northeastern 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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Northeastern University: 1.4% 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
75%Left75–91
25%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
4 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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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 1001 · Visual Intelligence83

Art & Art History

Examines via interdisciplinary lectures how image technologies and techniques of perception endemic to visual art, popular culture and digital media shape how visual culture is understood within an expanding knowledge economy. Introduces…

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ARTH 2312 · Revolutionary Design and Propaganda in Eastern Europe78

Art & Art History

Introduce students to significant and influential movements in Eastern European art and design history, such as Suprematism, Constructivism, Productivism, Socialist Realism and Nonconformist art, and explores both the ways in which art was…

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ARTD 1001 · Media Art, Culture, and Social Justice75

Art & Art History

Introduces a wide range of perspectives on and practices of media art and social justice. Exposes students to key concepts, lineages, controversies, and consequences of media practices that expose injustice and seek to build a more…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Northeastern University 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Northeastern University · Art & Art Historybias_left_share1.4—143—
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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