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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%.

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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

25%Left75–91

75%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

4 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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Framing Subject

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

ENL 059 · Racial Imaginaries75

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…

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COM 238 · Gender & Interpretation67

English & Comparative Literature

Study of how literary texts from different periods, societies, and cultures represent gender roles and gender hierarchy, building on recent work on gender in anthropology, literature, psychology, and women's studies.

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ENL 042 · Approaches to Reading67

English & Comparative Literature

Close reading and interpretation of literature from a variety of traditional and contemporary approaches. Topics include traditional textual and historical approaches; new criticism; formalism; psychological criticism; feminism and gender;…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of California-Davis English & Comparative Literature has 4 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

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.

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