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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

27%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

7%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

15 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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Framing Subject

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

HISTART 131C · Art and Propaganda in Modern China83

Art & Art History

The history of Chinese art from the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912 to the present, including the reformist movements of the early 20th century; the new urbanism and its visual articulation in advertising, photography, and popular arts;…

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HISTART 18 · Art and Climate Change78

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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ART 136 · Advanced Sculpture: Radical Wearables75

Art & Art History

How have contemporary artists used textiles, garments, and "fashion- like" sculptures to create artworks that challenge issues of gender, identity, and use? Far from being neutral territory, artist-produced props and wearables often…

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Furthest-right subjects

HISTART 161 · Renaissance Art in Rome 1400-160012

Art & Art History

A selective survey of major developments in Roman Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture organized by genre. Particular emphasis on the relationship between art and religion and the ideology of a theocratic papacy. Issues of…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of California, Berkeley · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	4.9	—	204	—
Art & Art History	bias_left_share	3.8	3.5 – 4.2	14,866	—

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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