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The New School · Art & Art History

9.2% of The New School'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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The New School: 9.2% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

2%Far left92–100
46%Left75–91
45%Center-left59–74
2%Center42–58
2%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
247 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

PLAH 3115 · Chinese Contemporary Art and Criticism100

Art & Art History

This course examines how economic development, Communist ideology, political movements, Chinese nationalism, and the search for new cultural identity play in the formation and transformation of contemporary art in China. We investigate the…

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LVIS 2054 · Black Secret Technology: The Moral Economy of Science and Art96

Art & Art History

This course surveys contemporary art, sonic technologies, performance, the social responsibility of science, and how forms of systematic knowledge emerging in the 19th century forged new categories of difference. The convergence of…

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LVIS 3018 · Capitalism & the Crisis of Contemporary Art96

Art & Art History

It has been suggested that, “[i]t is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.” What role can art play in anti-capitalist struggle today? If the practice of art was once thought of as a realm free from the alienation…

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Furthest-right subjects

PGHT 5759 · Antiquarianism and Museums: Ancient and Modern Practices of Collecting, Preservation, and Exhibition12

Art & Art History

Preserving monuments and collecting old artifacts is an important characteristic of complex societies since their inception. Ancient Babylonians actively excavated and restored old monuments and buildings in their cities, and collected and…

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PGHT 5630 · Arch, Aesthetics, Politics17

Art & Art History

This course traces the development of modern architecture from its origins in the revolutionary political and social climate of the early twentieth-century in Europe, through the Fascist period and World War II, to its transformation in the…

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PLVS 3205 · Visual Culture in the Land of Immigrants17

Art & Art History

Recent political debates about immigration to the United States—the controversial Arizona SB1070 (2010) and immigration reform protests in 2006—highlight Americans’ complex relationships with immigrants and migrants. This course considers…

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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
The New School · Art & Art Historybias_left_share9.2—1,486—
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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