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Harvard University · English & Comparative Literature

11.7% of Harvard 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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Harvard University: 11.7% 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

21%Left75–91

64%Center-left59–74

14%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

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COMPLIT 112X · Global Sci-Fi76

English & Comparative Literature

How does modern Sinophone sci-fi reveal the "dark side" of China's rise to power? How does Sinophone speculative fiction and its transmediated afterlives chart a reparative vision in the face of ongoing ecological and political crises? How…

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COMPLIT 111X · Breaking Points: Art, Scholarship, and Social Movements75

English & Comparative Literature

At certain times, it seems that things simply cannot continue as they have gone before. What then?This course looks at some collective breaking points—moments when scholarly, artistic, and activist practices come together to respond to…

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ENGLISH 90LN · Harvard and Native Lands75

English & Comparative Literature

Harvard's beginnings included a promise to educate both "English and Indian youth." From its inception, however, Harvard's endowment included Native lands expropriated through war, theft, and coercion. Drawing inspiration from Harvard's own…

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Furthest right

None. Harvard University English & Comparative Literature has 14 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
Harvard University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	11.7	—	120	—
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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