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American University · English & Comparative Literature

6.4% of American University's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.

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American University: 6.4% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

83%Center-left59–74

17%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

6 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

LIT 319 · Imagined Bodies: Historicizing Race and Gender73

English & Comparative Literature

This course studies the early modern body as a site where ideologies of property, gender, race, and class operate to (re)organize society in the anglophone Atlantic world. By reading critical theory, novels, and other primary source…

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LIT 285 · Introduction to Latina/o/x Studies72

English & Comparative Literature

Latinxs (people with roots in Latin America) have lived and worked in what is now the United States for at least 400 years. This course examines cultural productions and critical texts that consider structural inequality as it affects…

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LIT 204 · Hidden Figures and Cultural Calculations62

English & Comparative Literature

This course explores what quantitative reasoning can tell us about literature, what literature can tell us about quantitative reasoning, and what they have to tell us about regimes of power and social inequity. Through fiction, film, and…

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Furthest right

None. American University English & Comparative Literature has 6 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
American University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	6.4	—	94	—
English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	6.3	6.0 – 6.7	19,071	—

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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