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17% of Columbia 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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Columbia University: 17% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

2%Far left92–100

27%Left75–91

63%Center-left59–74

8%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Furthest left

CPLS GU4325 · Abolition Medicine: Medical Racisms and Anti-Racisms100

English & Comparative Literature

In 1935, WEB Dubois wrote about abolition democracy: an idea based not only on breaking down unjust systems, but on building up new, antiracist social structures. Scholar activists like Angela Davis, Ruth Gilmore and Mariame Kaba have long…

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ENGL BC3172 · Marxist Materialisms: Change the World88

English & Comparative Literature

Philosophers have only interpreted the world, wrote Marx in the Theses on Feuerbach: the point is to change it. Perhaps this is the origin of theory. In this seminar we will examine theories that both explain the world and help us change…

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CSER GU4340 · Visionary Medicine: Racial Justice, Heal83

English & Comparative Literature

In Fall 2014, medical students across the U.S. staged die-ins as part of the nationwide #blacklivesmatter protests. The intention was to create a shocking visual spectacle, laying on the line “white coats for black lives.” The images were…

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Furthest right

None. Columbia University English & Comparative Literature has 51 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
Columbia University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	17	—	300	—
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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