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University of California, Berkeley · Art & Art History

4.9% of University of California, Berkeley'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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University of California, Berkeley: 4.9% 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
10%Left75–91
70%Center-left59–74
20%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
10 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

HISTART 18 · Art and Climate Change75

Art & Art History

What can art, architecture, sustainable design, urban planning, cinema, and performance practices contribute to current debates on environmental justice and climate change? Taking the visual politics of climate change as a starting point,…

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HISTART 111 · Beyond El Dorado: Indigenous Ancestral Art from the Isthmo-Colombian Area72

Art & Art History

This upper-division course introduces the cultural productions of the Isthmo-Colombian Area (south of Mesoamerica, north of the Andes and Amazon, and parts of the Caribbean). Once framed in Western archaeology as the “Intermediate Area”—a…

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ART 118 · Advanced Drawing: Remixing the Figure68

Art & Art History

This studio course investigates representations of the human body across different periods and locations to explore what it means to depict the body in the 21st Century. How do dominant signifiers and various intersections of race, gender,…

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Furthest right

None. University of California, Berkeley Art & Art History has 10 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
University of California, Berkeley · Art & Art Historybias_left_share4.9—204—
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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