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University of California-Santa Barbara · English & Comparative Literature

8.2% of University of California-Santa Barbara'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-Santa Barbara: 8.2% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

6%Far left92–100

9%Left75–91

85%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

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

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Framing Subject

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest left

C LIT 192A · VIOLENCE AS DE-COLONIZING CATHARSIS:FROM FRANTZ FANON TO THE TRICONTINENTAL MANIFESTO94

English & Comparative Literature

Using primary and secondary texts, the course explores the evolution of postcolonialphilosopher Frantz Fanons ideas from his seminal Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and 1961The Wretched of the Earth (for which Sartre wrote the Preface)…

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ENGL 165NJ · Native Justice: Settler Colonialism, Legality, and Decolonization94

English & Comparative Literature

What is justice for Native American and Indigenous communities? How do concepts and practices such as radical abolition and reparations relate to decolonization? How do Indigenous writers and activists encounter logics and material…

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ENGL 134RJ · Creative Imagination of Racial Justice88

English & Comparative Literature

Centering literature and art, this course explores the creative imagination of racial justice, employing transnational and intersectional frameworks that bridge ethnic studies and postcolonial and decolonial critique. How do writers and…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Barbara English & Comparative Literature has 33 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-Santa Barbara · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	8.2	—	403	—
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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