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University of California-Riverside · English & Comparative Literature

4% of University of California-Riverside'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-Riverside: 4% 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

78%Center-left59–74

22%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

9 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

CPLT 037 · Otaku Worldwide: the Globalization of Japanese Media and its Subcultures68

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; written work, 2 hours; extra reading, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): none. Explores the historical contingency of subcultures, key moments in the evolving discourse on ‘otaku’ both within and outside Japan, and considers how the term…

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CPLT 116 · Japan and its Others63

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; written work, 1. Prerequisite(s): upper- division standing or consent of the instructor. Studies gender/race/ethnic/sexual politics and minority cultural productions in modern…

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ENGL 186 · Intersectional Feminist Theory and Literature63

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or consent of instructor. Examines the theory, literature, and expressive cultures of one or more groups of Black, Indigenous, and…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Riverside English & Comparative Literature has 9 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-Riverside · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	4	—	225	—
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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