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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

31%Left75–91

55%Center-left59–74

7%Center42–58

7%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

29 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

L14 3075 · The American Radical Novel: Literature Versus90

English & Comparative Literature

Inequality Intended to help students reckon knowledgably, imaginatively, and articulately with our era of escalating social inequality, this course is a writing-intensive study of representative American radical novels stretching from the…

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L16 3520 · Introduction to Postcolonial Literature88

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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L14 3550 · Undoing Empire: Introduction to Postcolonial86

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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Furthest-right subjects

L14 3081 · City on a Hill: The Concept and Culture of American28

English & Comparative Literature

Exceptionalism This course examines the concept, history, and culture of American exceptionalism-the idea that America has been specially chosen, or has a special mission to the world. First, we examine the Puritan sermon that politicians…

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L14 3975 · Wolves of Wall Street: American Business and35

English & Comparative Literature

Popular Culture America's perceptions about Big Business and the Free Enterprise system have evolved and changed over time from the 1920s to the present. During the 1980s, for example, Oliver Stone's 'Wall Street' seemed to endorse the…

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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
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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