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12.6% of Barnard College'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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Barnard College: 12.6% 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

21%Left75–91

68%Center-left59–74

11%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

19 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

ENGL BC3296 · AGAINST COLONIALISM, AGAINST FASCISM. 4.0078

English & Comparative Literature

points. The Caribbean poet Aimé Cesairé argued that the terrors of World War II simply reflected colonial practices returned home to their origin, Western Europe. This course investigates the relationship between fascism and colonialism,…

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ENGL BC1023 · FEMINISM, SCIENCE, # REPRODUCTIVE TECH. 3.0077

English & Comparative Literature

points. Reproduction is both a biological and social process-one that is often the target of deep-seated ideas about identity, culture, science, and technology. How have contraceptives, pharmaceuticals, and other technologies shaped…

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ENGL BC3190 · Global Literature in English75

English & Comparative Literature

BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered during 2023-2024 academic year. Selective survey of fiction from the…

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Furthest right

None. Barnard College English & Comparative Literature has 19 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
Barnard College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	12.6	—	151	—
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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