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Grinnell College · English & Comparative Literature

7.1% of Grinnell 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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Grinnell College: 7.1% 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

80%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 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 229 · 01 - The Tradition of African American Literature75

English & Comparative Literature

4 credits (Spring) "Slavery and its Afterlives." In her book Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007), Saidiya Hartman introduces the idea of slavery and its afterlives: If slavery persists as an issue in the…

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ENG 227 · 01 - American Literary Traditions I72

English & Comparative Literature

4 credits (Spring) American Gothic: from a City on a Hill to the Sunken Place. In this course, we explore the personifications and demonizations that haunt America's clearings, those spaces and places in which genocidal violence and slave…

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ENG 329 · 01 - Studies in African American Literature72

English & Comparative Literature

4 credits (Spring) "Miscegenation Nation." Miscegenation is defined as "interbreeding among the races." Anti-miscegenation laws have played an immeasurable role in policing race relations throughout most of our country's history. And yet,…

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Furthest right

None. Grinnell College English & Comparative Literature has 5 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
Grinnell College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	7.1	—	70	—
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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