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Washington and Lee University · English & Comparative Literature

3.7% of Washington and Lee University'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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Washington and Lee University: 3.7% 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

0%Left75–91

100%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

4 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 315 · Arthurian Bodies, Desires, and Affects72

English & Comparative Literature

FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. During the medieval and early modern periods, King Arthur and his court served as the…

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ENGL 376 · Postcolonial Literature and Theory72

English & Comparative Literature

FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: an English course numbered between 201 and 295 and another English course numbered between 222 and 299. This course is an introduction to some of the key concepts and debates in postcolonial…

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ENGL 266 · Introduction to African American Literature65

English & Comparative Literature

AFCA 266 FDR: HL Literature Distribution Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Same as ENGL 266. This course offers an introduction to African American literature from the 1700s to the present. We will ground our inquiry across…

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Furthest right

None. Washington and Lee University English & Comparative Literature has 4 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
Washington and Lee University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	3.7	—	107	—
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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