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University of Notre Dame · Art & Art History

2.5% of University of Notre Dame'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 Notre Dame: 2.5% 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

15%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

8%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

13 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

ARHI 43481 · Topics in Contemporary Art - Slackers, Critics, and Makers: Art in the 1990s78

Art & Art History

In the wake of post-modern, theory heavy days of 1980s art production, artists took a pointed turn toward finding materially-driven ways to challenge and disrupt the conventions of art and its institutions. This seminar investigates three…

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ARHI 13182 · Fine Arts University Seminar: USEM Fine Arts: Art & Identity75

Art & Art History

University seminars will address a variety of topics in the history of art depending on the interests of the professor. These courses require several short papers as well as a final written exercise appropriate to the material. Course…

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ARHI 30491 · Art History of Chicago72

Art & Art History

This course surveys art made in Chicago from the nineteenth century to the present. We will examine the rise of Chicago as an art capital through the founding of art academies and museums, the hosting of World Fairs, and the era of modern…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARHI 43110 · The Arts of Roman Luxury20

Art & Art History

Coco Chanel once claimed that "Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends." This seminar explores the nature of that necessity through the ancient Roman world's many material expressions of luxury. Examining works ranging from…

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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 Notre Dame · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	2.5	—	239	—
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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