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Lehigh University · English & Comparative Literature

5.9% of Lehigh 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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Lehigh University: 5.9% 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

0%Left75–91

71%Center-left59–74

29%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

ENGL 393 · Modernism, Mourning and Social Justice70

English & Comparative Literature

Loss and disappointment come to us all. If we cannot mourn, we cannot heal or grow. Students will read American modernist masterpieces by Hemingway, Faulkner, H.D., Ellison and others. These writers explored intimate experiences of grief,…

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ENGL 358 · Outcasts in Medieval Literature and Culture64

English & Comparative Literature

This course investigates how late medieval English writing features multiple types of outcasts including lepers, beggars, heretics, religious recluses, and so-called lunatics. How do these categories of exclusion function both to critique…

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ENGL 341 · Contemporary US Literature of Environmental Crises62

English & Comparative Literature

This course addresses how contemporary US literature depicts toxic America and the environmental crises as well as the human (and other animal) tragedies that result from a variety of contemporary practices that deny connectivity…

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Furthest right

None. Lehigh University English & Comparative Literature has 7 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
Lehigh University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	5.9	—	119	—
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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