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Fordham University · English & Comparative Literature

10.5% of Fordham 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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Fordham University: 10.5% 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

15%Left75–91

77%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

60 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 5600 · Special Topics in Rhetorical Theory & Criticism: Rhetoric, Race, and Identity94

English & Comparative Literature

Using a rhetorical lens, this course explores the ontological and epistemological history of race, gender, sexuality, and other identity categories as they have been invented alongside capitalism. We will begin with overarching theories,…

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COLI 4211 · Empire and Sexuality85

English & Comparative Literature

For many years now, critical queer and trans scholars have traced the intersections between gender and sexual identity formations and the modern exercise of state power. In particular, this body of scholarship has excavated the complicities…

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ENGL 3803 · Empire and Sexuality83

English & Comparative Literature

For many years now, scholars have traced the intersections between gender and sexual identity formations and the modern exercise of state power. This course engages with these conversations through an attention to gender and sexuality as…

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Furthest right

None. Fordham University English & Comparative Literature has 60 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
Fordham University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	10.5	—	572	—
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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