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Vassar College · English & Comparative Literature

18.1% of Vassar College'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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Vassar College: 18.1% 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

13%Left75–91

87%Center-left59–74

0%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

Furthest left

ENGL 233 · Carceral Literature of the Caribbean75

English & Comparative Literature

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 233 ) This course examines how the narratives of non-imprisoned Caribbean writers who live in (neo)colonial conditions contest carceral entrapment. To perceive these dynamics, this class…

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ENGL 319 · Race and its Metaphors75

English & Comparative Literature

Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 319 ) Re-examinations of canonical literature in order to discover how race is either explicitly addressed by or implicitly enabling to the texts. Does racial difference, whether or not…

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ENGL 223 · Surrealism Across the African Diaspora72

English & Comparative Literature

Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 223 ) Decades of historiographic erasure have resulted in canonical accounts of the Surrealist movement that overlook the involvement of Black artists. This course introduces students to…

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Furthest right

None. Vassar College 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
Vassar College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	18.1	—	83	—
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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