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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

46%Left75–91

39%Center-left59–74

4%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

1%Far right0–8

69 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

C LIT 192A · VIOLENCE AS DE-COLONIZING CATHARSIS:FROM FRANTZ FANON TO THE TRICONTINENTAL MANIFESTO100

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 Decolonization100

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 165GN · Comics & Graphic Narrative92

English & Comparative Literature

Comics-with connections to political pamphlets, cartooning, and zineshave a long history of lampooning critique. Alongside issues of form and aesthetics, this course investigates 20th and 21st century American graphic narratives as a form…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 103SH · The Secret History of Eighteenth-Century Literature0

English & Comparative Literature

This course looks at the underside of eighteenth-century literature to uncover the major concerns of the period, and how they continue to affect us today. While it has conventionally been known as the Age of Enlightenment, with an ideology…

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C LIT 122C · Holocaust in Italy17

English & Comparative Literature

Through readings of memoir, fiction, and film, this course investigates the fate of Jews under the Italian Fascists of Benito Mussolini (1922-1945). Topics include Fascism, Communism, anti-Semitism, Italian cooperation with the Nazis, the…

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ENGL 184 · Modern European Literature17

English & Comparative Literature

Modern European literature (1850-2000) through some of its most relevant texts from France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland. Topics: early commodity culture, changing gender roles, boredom, and consumption (Flaubert and Zola); memory…

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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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