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Washington University in St. Louis · English & Comparative Literature

6.1% of Washington University in St. Louis'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 University in St. Louis: 6.1% 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

7%Left75–91

86%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

14 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

L16 3894 · Topics in African Literature75

English & Comparative Literature

Beginning with a survey of African oral narratives, then analyzing selected texts by such leading African authors as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi waThiongUo, Wole Soyinka, and Ousmane Sembene, this course will examine ways in which African…

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L14 3550 · Undoing Empire: Introduction to Postcolonial74

English & Comparative Literature

Writing and Art This course introduces students to the histories and politics of postcolonial writing and art. By tracing the genealogies of writing and art produced in the aermath of colonialism, this course will explore how writers,…

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L14 3520 · Introduction to Postcolonial Literature72

English & Comparative Literature

At its zenith, the British Empire encompassed almost a quarter of the globe, allowing the diminutive island nation unprecedented economic, military, and political influence upon the rest of the world. This course will introduce some of the…

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Furthest right

None. Washington University in St. Louis English & Comparative Literature has 14 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 University in St. Louis · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	6.1	—	231	—
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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