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University of Texas at Austin · English & Comparative Literature

1.2% of University of Texas at Austin'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 Texas at Austin: 1.2% 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

11%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

11%Right9–25

11%Far right0–8

9 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

E 310D · Introduction to Digital Studies75

English & Comparative Literature

Explore the critical application of exploratory techniques in digital scholarship in the humanities, including principles of exploratory data analysis programming language to perform both analysis and visualization. Critique how text,…

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E 349S · Topics on Major Authors72

English & Comparative Literature

Intensive study of the works of a single major author or two major authors. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Only one of the following may be counted unless the topics vary: English 349S, 370W, 376M. May be repeated for credit…

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E 323G · American Literary Masculinities70

English & Comparative Literature

Same as Women's and Gender Studies 345K. Explores constructions of masculinity in American literature from a generally, but not exclusively, feminist perspective. Subjects include what masculinity has meant at different times in United…

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Furthest-right subjects

E 323E · Writing Slavery0

English & Comparative Literature

Same as African and African Diaspora Studies 330P and Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 31). Explores the controversial rewriting of slavery in a presentist context by contemporary authors. Addresses challenges that archival limitations…

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E 379K · American Literature and Thought: 1840-192022

English & Comparative Literature

Such topics as transcendentalism, manifest destiny, Utopian thought, and the impact of the theory of organic evolution. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Prerequisite: One of the following: Comparative Literature 315, English…

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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 Texas at Austin · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	1.2	—	259	—
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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