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The New School · English & Comparative Literature

11.7% of The New School'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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The New School: 11.7% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

2%Far left92–100

23%Left75–91

71%Center-left59–74

5%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

65 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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LLST 3191 · James Baldwin94

English & Comparative Literature

Staged in the context of global economic insecurity, a planet gripped by the ravages of war and climate change, ever-increasing gaps in wealth, as well as rampant fundamentalism (East and West), this seminar will re-consider the…

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LLSL 2703 · The Trouble with Difference: Race and Gender in American Literature and Culture84

English & Comparative Literature

This course examines the necessity for the circulation of fictive but dominant conceptions of racial, gendered and other types of social difference in our national literature and culture. During our brief time together, we will consider the…

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LLSL 2046 · Race and American Literature78

English & Comparative Literature

James Baldwin was one of 20th-century America's most exacting writers and critics. He probed, with forensic insight, bracing vulnerability, sly wit, and unsurpassed lyricism, this country's inability to face up to its brutal history and…

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Furthest right

None. The New School English & Comparative Literature has 65 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
The New School · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	11.7	—	556	—
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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