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7.1% of Brown 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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Brown University: 7.1% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

1%Far left92–100

14%Left75–91

78%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

69 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

COLT 1441 · Colonialisms on Trial92

English & Comparative Literature

Inspired by the movie Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) in which capitalism is put on trial, this seminar asks: How can we draw from the study of and opposition to colonialism the law that one should enact against it? In the name of what…

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ENGL 0202D · Poetic Justice: Literature on Colonialism90

English & Comparative Literature

How have dreams of freedom been written in the 20th and 21st centuries? This course explores writing on unequal relations, relations of exploitation and duress, under the contemporary global and racial order. We will consider how writers…

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ENGL 2901P · Black Feminism: Roots, Routes, Futures86

English & Comparative Literature

This graduate seminar pursues an interdisciplinary investigation of black feminist theories, methods, praxes, and politics. Using a black feminist lens, it investigates legacies of racial slavery and colonialism; the pathways and promises…

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Furthest right

None. Brown University English & Comparative Literature has 69 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
Brown University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	7.1	—	967	—
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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