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University of Houston · English & Comparative Literature

0% of University of Houston's English & Comparative Literature course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' English & Comparative Literature departments, it is 6.3%.

0%35%
University of Houston: 0% 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
75%Left75–91
25%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
8 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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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 4341 · Queer Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: ENGL 1302 or equivalent. Description An introduction to the field of queer theory as practiced in literary studies. Repeatability: NoAdditional Fee: Y

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ENGL 6314 · Feminist Criticism83

English & Comparative Literature

3.0Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: graduate standing in English or approval of chair of graduate studies in English. Beginning with a background of general theories in feminism, the course focuses on feminist…

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ENGL 6318 · Queer Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

3Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0Prerequisite: Graduate standing in English or approval of chair of graduate studies in English. This course will examine the work of gay and lesbian studies that informs much of contemporary…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Houston English & Comparative Literature has 8 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Houston · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share0—204—
English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share6.36.0 – 6.719,071—
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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