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Hamilton College · English & Comparative Literature

16.0% of Hamilton 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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Hamilton College: 16.0% 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
13%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
15 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

LIT 393 · Multispecies Kinship76

English & Comparative Literature

We will explore what it means to build kin with a place, while in a place-specifically, our campus. We start by thinking about and the human impact on our planet and the inherent demand issued by climate change to abandon anthropocentrism…

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LIT 144 · When "Justice Is an Autopsy with No Apology": Literature against Victimization75

English & Comparative Literature

"Poetry makes nothing happen," moaned W.H. Auden in 1940. But when, as Yomi Sode claims, justice is relegated to an autopsy with no apology, how do writers respond? In this class, we will investigate how literature stands up against…

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LIT 465 · Faulkner and the South72

English & Comparative Literature

Faulkner's major novels, published between the late 1920s and the early 1940s, trace his most impassioned struggle with the legacies of slavery, the enduring hierarchies of gender and class, and the rising specter of industrialization's…

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Furthest right

None. Hamilton College English & Comparative Literature has 15 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Hamilton College · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share16.0—94—
English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share6.36.0 – 6.719,071—
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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