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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

17%Far left92–100

50%Left75–91

30%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

3%Far right0–8

30 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.

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

Furthest-left subjects

ENGL 3332 · Black Times: Afrofuturism, Afropessimism and the Future (Ends) of the World100

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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CSCL 3405 · Marx for Today98

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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CSCL 3425W · Critical Theory and Social Change96

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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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 5040 · Theories of Film8

English & Comparative Literature

Advanced topics regarding film in a variety of interpretive contexts, from the range and historic development of American, English, and Anglophone film (e.g., "Fascism and Film," "Queer Cinemas"). Topics and viewing times announced in Class…

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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 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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