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University of Chicago · Art & Art History

5.4% of University of Chicago'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 Chicago: 5.4% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

4%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

48%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

11%Right9–25

4%Far right0–8

27 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

ARTH 25119 · Architecture and Colonialism in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia94

Art & Art History

This seminar invites students to examine the intersections of colonialism with architecture in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Throughout the semester, we will discuss the designs of architects working in the region (Le Corbusier, Fernand…

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ARTH 28201 · Art on My Mind90

Art & Art History

A critic who began as an abstract painter, bell hooks (Gloria Watkins) was also a queer woman of color and among the most penetrating cultural observers in recent US history. This course centers on the close reading of hooks' 1995 book, Art…

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ARTH 17762 · Architecture and Colonialism in Algeria and Morocco88

Art & Art History

This seminar invites students to examine the intersections of colonialism with architecture in Algeria and Morocco. Throughout the quarter, we will discuss designs of architects working in these two contexts (Le Corbusier, Fernand Pouillon,…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 21821 · (Re-)Living Nazi Germany through the Eyes of the Graphic Novel0

Art & Art History

This course considers the graphic novel as an aesthetic and political response to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Through close reading of three paradigmatic graphic novels by German and American artists from WWII to the present day, we…

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ARTH 23006 · Looting, Plunder, and the Making of Modern Europe17

Art & Art History

At the end of the eighteenth century Europeans recognized the seizure of enemy property to be a time-honored practice of warfare and subjugation. At the same time, however, new ideas about human rights, cultural heritage, and international…

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ARTH 32425 · City of the Century: Vienna 1900 and the Making of the 20th Century17

Art & Art History

In 1910, Vienna, with a population of 2 million was the 6th largest city in the world; it was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a multiethnic and multilingual state. As the "cradle of modernism and fascism, liberalism and…

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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 Chicago · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	5.4	—	240	—
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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