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Hamilton College · English & Comparative Literature

16.0% of Hamilton 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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Hamilton College: 16.0% 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

42%Left75–91

48%Center-left59–74

6%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

3%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

31 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 339 · Global Shakespeare--Methods83

English & Comparative Literature

How did Shakespeare respond to national & ethnic difference at "The Globe" Theater; how have later writers from around the globe responded to Shakespeare's work? We will grapple with some of the darkest material in the Shakespeare…

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LIT 391 · Queer/Feminist Literary Theory83

English & Comparative Literature

Contemporary feminist and queer theories have a close connection to literature; they emerged from and later transformed literary studies. We will discuss selected theoretical writing, as well as creative texts from the late nineteenth…

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LIT 393 · Multispecies Kinship82

English & Comparative Literature

We will explore what it means to build kin with a place, while in a place-specifically, our campus. We start by thinking about and the human impact on our planet and the inherent demand issued by climate change to abandon anthropocentrism…

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Furthest-right subjects

LIT 229 · King Arthur: Myth and History17

English & Comparative Literature

The legend of King Arthur and his knights has been appropriated to serve diverse creative and political agendas over the centuries. This course will look at its origins in early Welsh legend, its elaboration by historian Geoffrey 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
Hamilton College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	16.0	—	94	—
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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