Baylor University · English & Comparative Literature
1.4% of Baylor 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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Baylor University: 1.4% 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
100%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
1 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.
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
ENG 4384 · Contemporary Critical Theory67
English & Comparative Literature
Pre-requisite(s): ENG 2310 and 3 hours from Literature in Context DL, and upper-level standing or consent of instructor Contemporary approaches to the critical interpretation of literature, emphasizing primary texts, e.g., psychoanalytic,…
None. Baylor University English & Comparative Literature has 1 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.
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Baylor University · English & Comparative Literature
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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Baylor University · English & Comparative Literature