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Boston College · English & Comparative Literature

14.8% of Boston 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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Boston College: 14.8% 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

25%Left75–91

70%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

ENGL 7034 · Reading the Past in an Uncertain Present: The Lessons of Early Modern Ireland and the MACMORRIS DH Project86

English & Comparative Literature

Early modern Ireland is one of the places where modernity is trialled. The extreme violence of theTudor and Stuart conquest, the settlement of English and Scots in the plantations which followed,the displacement of native lites by an…

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ADEN 1900 · Literature of Transformation: System-Impacted Voices78

English & Comparative Literature

In this class, students will join a community of learners to read texts that visualize life beyond the bounds of the carceral system. The classs focus is two-fold: 1) to delve into the liberatory power of literature and 2) to engage in the…

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ENGL 1742 · From Charity to Justice: Transforming Approaches to Poverty in Literature77

English & Comparative Literature

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both UNAS1737 and ENGL1742. Why does poverty persist and how can we remedy it? In an individualistic society such as ours, poverty is often framed as a personal…

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Furthest right

None. Boston College English & Comparative Literature has 20 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
Boston College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	14.8	—	135	—
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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