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University of Connecticut · English & Comparative Literature

1.7% of University of Connecticut'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 Connecticut: 1.7% 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

36%Left75–91

18%Center-left59–74

45%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

11 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

ENGL 3319 · Topics in Postcolonial Studies83

English & Comparative Literature

Intensive studies in particular topics pertaining to colonialism, empire, and the postcolonial. CA 4-INT. Enrollment Requirements: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 . Content Areas: CA4INT: Div & Multi - Intl

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ENGL 2608 · Introduction to Indigenous Film78

English & Comparative Literature

An introductory study of cinematic images of Indigenous peoples across historic, geographic, and generic categories. Particular attention will be paid to how cinema is an expression of Indigenous sovereignty and the ways colonialism shapes…

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ENGL 3267W · Race and the Scientific Imagination78

English & Comparative Literature

(Also offered as AMST 3267W .) How racism has been both reproduced and contradicted in the scientific imagination. Scientific texts and imaginative literature that explore the reparation of past harms and imagine new futures. CA 1. CA 4.…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Connecticut English & Comparative Literature has 6 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 Connecticut · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	1.7	—	176	—
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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