Howard University · English & Comparative Literature
2.4% of Howard 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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Howard University: 2.4% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison
Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall
20%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
5 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.
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.
Furthest-left subjects
ENGL 247 · Genres in British Lit100
English & Comparative Literature
May focus on historical surveys of the development of broad genres, like drama or prose fiction, or may focus on specialized topics such as The Jacobean Revenge Play, The Post-Colonial Novel, Abolitionist Poetry, or Afro- British…
This course examines the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s to mid 1970s, a multifaceted group of African- American artists, writers, and musicians who were committed to creating politically charged socially relevant art and saw…
Explore literature, film, and other media that engage gender and sexuality from a Black and Diasporic perspective. Examine texts using an intersectional framework that incorporates Black Feminism, Black and Queer of Color Theory, literary…
None. Howard University English & Comparative Literature has 5 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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
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Howard University · English & Comparative Literature
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.