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University of Minnesota · English & Comparative Literature

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

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

7%Far left92–100

33%Left75–91

53%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

15 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

CSCL 3425W · Critical Theory and Social Change92

English & Comparative Literature

This course introduces students to influential thinkers in the field of critical theory, broadly conceived. Critical theory is similar to philosophy because it asks big questions that stretch the boundaries of human knowledge. But it is…

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CSCL 3405 · Marx for Today88

English & Comparative Literature

A century and a half after the publication of Karl Marx's Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), this course will reflect on the political urgency of our current moment in order to understand the relevance and complexity of Marx and the Marxist tradition.…

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ENGL 3332 · Black Times: Afrofuturism, Afropessimism and the Future (Ends) of the World78

English & Comparative Literature

In 1993, Mark Dery coined the term Afrofuturism to describe "[s]peculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth- century technoculture - and, more generally,…

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Furthest right

None. University of Minnesota English & Comparative Literature has 15 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 Minnesota · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	8.2	—	183	—
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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