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Vanderbilt University · Art & Art History

0.6% of Vanderbilt University'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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Vanderbilt University: 0.6% 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

60%Left75–91

40%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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

HART2737 · History of Performance Art75

Art & Art History

History and theory of performance art in the twentieth century. Interdisciplinary approach covering dance, theater, film/video, and cabaret with focus on performance activities of artists trained in visual arts. Futurism, Dada, Ballet…

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HART2772 · Contemporary Art and Biennial Exhibitions75

Art & Art History

From 1850 to present. Origins of world fairs, the Crystal Palace, Venice Biennale, and modern exhibitions. Core themes: Globalization of art, decolonized thinking and art making, the relation between locality and globality, and the…

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HART3753W · Imaging the "Other" in Art75

Art & Art History

Representations of racial difference in North America and Europe, 19th-21st centuries. Orientalism, colonialism, primitivism, anthropology, the use of racial and ethnic stereotypes, and the politics of display. [3] (HCA)

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Vanderbilt University Art & Art History has 5 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Vanderbilt University · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	0.6	—	173	—
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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