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George Washington University · English & Comparative Literature

2.4% of George Washington 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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George Washington University: 2.4% 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

35%Left75–91

58%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

4%Far right0–8

26 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.

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Framing Subject

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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

ENGL 2610W · Introduction to Black Literature of America I83

English & Comparative Literature

Survey of significant works of black American literature from the late eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the slave narrative. Includes a significant engagement in writing as a form of…

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ENGL 2710 · Postcolonialism, Race, and Gender in Global Anglophone Literature and Film83

English & Comparative Literature

How race and gender shaped empire and nationalism in international Anglophone literature and cinema from 1857 to 1960. Feminist, postcolonial, and critical race theory, engaged with modern literature, graphic narratives, and film. Same As: WGSS 2710 .

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ENGL 2800 · Introduction to Critical Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

Topics and techniques of literary and cultural analysis. Introduction to major schools of critical theory, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory, and disability studies. Same As: ENGL 2800W .

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 3912 · Disability and the Holocaust0

English & Comparative Literature

Investigating the question of direct links between the medical mass murder of disabled people in German psychiatric institutions to the Holocaust during World War II; studies of contemporary memorialization practices are examined.

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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
George Washington University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	2.4	—	165	—
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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