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Claremont McKenna College · English & Comparative Literature

3.3% of Claremont McKenna 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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Claremont McKenna College: 3.3% 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

40%Center-left59–74

20%Center42–58

20%Center-right26–41

20%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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

LIT 107 · African American Poetry67

English & Comparative Literature

Through reading, writing, and discussion, this course will introduce students to some of the most influential literary and vernacular poetry emerging from the African American cultural context. For the most part, these literary and…

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LIT 129 · African American Literature67

English & Comparative Literature

This course introduces students to some of the most influential literary and vernacular texts emerging from the African American cultural context. For the most part, these literary and vernacular works will be considered in relation to the…

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Furthest-right subjects

LIT 138 · Film and Mass Culture10

English & Comparative Literature

This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20 th -century "mass culture." We will take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of "mass culture", the cinematic representation of the…

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LIT 119 · 19th-Century Russian Novel30

English & Comparative Literature

This course examines the explosive growth of the Russian novel. Students will read major works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and will become familiar with such themes as Slavophilism, realism, revolution…

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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
Claremont McKenna College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	3.3	—	91	—
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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