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Dartmouth College · English & Comparative Literature

18.1% of Dartmouth 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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Dartmouth College: 18.1% 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

20%Left75–91

78%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

3%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

40 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 53.38 · Narratives of Un-belonging: Bad Asians,91

English & Comparative Literature

Queer Texts What makes an Asian/American “bad” and what makes a text “queer”? How does one shed light and offer insight on the other? How might the “bad” and the “queer” name the refusal and failure to assimilate and align oneself with…

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ENGL 53.52 · Living a Feminist Life: Archive, Text,91

English & Comparative Literature

Action This class will examine how “knowledge” about women’s, femmes’ and non-binary people’s lives have been constructed in text, and how this knowledge determines and impacts the choices we have and make about loving, working, thinking,…

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ENGL 63.11 · Race, Sex, Sensation84

English & Comparative Literature

This course engages with theories of race, sex, and sensation in critical race and ethnic studies, black and women of color feminism, and postcolonial studies. How does the violence enacted on racialized, sexed, gendered subjects exclude…

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Furthest right

ENGL 52.11 · Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth39

English & Comparative Literature

College Case Two hundred years ago, in 1819, Daniel Webster argued a case in front of the Supreme Court defending his alma mater, Dartmouth College, against the predations of the State of New Hampshire. The Court found in favor of…

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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
Dartmouth College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	18.1	—	215	—
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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