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Southern Methodist University · Art & Art History

4.3% of Southern Methodist 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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Southern Methodist University: 4.3% 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
29%Left75–91
71%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 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

ARHS 3362 · Decolonizing the Art Museum80

Art & Art History

Invites students to think critically about the role of museums as spaces for decolonial thought and practice. Discusses the historical inception of colonial museums, the acquisition practices of museums, and the strategies of display common…

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ARHS 3376 · Latin American Art75

Art & Art History

A survey of art and architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean from the initial contacts between American and European civilizations until the 21st century. Considers the politics of representation within art, visual, and material…

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ARHS 3390 · Art of the Afro-Fantastic: Visualizing Contemporary Black Imaginaries72

Art & Art History

Explores the Afro-Fantastic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework for examining the liberatory possibilities of blackness in this contemporary moment. 'Afro-Fantastic' is a term that loosely assembles creative modalities of blackness…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Southern Methodist University Art & Art History has 7 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
Southern Methodist University · Art & Art Historybias_left_share4.3—161—
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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