All schools · Public

University of California-Davis · English & Comparative Literature

1.9% of University of California-Davis's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.

ShowCompared withDepartments

0%35%

University of California-Davis: 1.9% 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

67%Center-left59–74

33%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

See it for yourself

Framing Subject

Furthest left

ENL 059 · Racial Imaginaries68

English & Comparative Literature

Critical vocabularies and frameworks for studying the cultural construction of race as a signifier of human difference. Theories of racial formation in poetry, fiction, and other imaginative genres. Rhetorical and media strategies that…

See it for yourself →

ENL 145 · Reading Race, Class, & Gender61

English & Comparative Literature

Readings in literature and culture that present race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship as inter-articulated signifiers of difference. Literature is contextualized alongside works of sociology, history, philosophy, and law.…

See it for yourself →

ENL 182 · Literature of California57

English & Comparative Literature

Focus is on the diverse contributions to the rise of California literature from the 19th century to today. Reading of poetry, fiction, and essays. Includes Native American, Latino/a, and other Californian writers.

See it for yourself →

Furthest right

None. University of California-Davis English & Comparative Literature has 3 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
University of California-Davis · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	1.9	—	154	—
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.

Ask a question about University of California-Davis · Make a school card