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Davidson College · English & Comparative Literature

21.2% of Davidson 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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Davidson College: 21.2% 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

19%Left75–91

71%Center-left59–74

10%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

21 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

ENG 262 · Bodies at Risk in American Drama83

English & Comparative Literature

Instructor Fox In the first two decades of the 21st century, human existence has been made more precarious by racism, sexism, ableism, and homophobia; war and conflict; global warming; health inequities; and widening social and economic…

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ENG 376 · Representing Fat Bodies78

English & Comparative Literature

Instructor Fox Lushly enfleshed in America and want favorable representation? Fat chance. Indeed, not only is there social stigma, but pathologizing fat is central to the mission of pharmaceutical companies, the medical-industrial complex,…

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ENG 409 · Television: Queer Representations (=GSS 401)75

English & Comparative Literature

Instructor Fackler With its roots in the gendered domestic suburban household, television has a longstanding investment in questions of gender and sexuality. Pushing back against the assumption that LGBTQ characters did not appear on our…

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Furthest right

None. Davidson College English & Comparative Literature has 21 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
Davidson College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	21.2	—	99	—
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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