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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.

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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…

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ENGG 273 · The Black Arts Movement83

English & Comparative Literature

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…

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ENGL 286 · Intro to Black LGBTQ Studies83

English & Comparative Literature

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…

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Furthest-right subjects

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Howard University · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share2.4—82—
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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