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Lehigh University · English & Comparative Literature

5.9% of Lehigh University'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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Lehigh University: 5.9% 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
36%Left75–91
55%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
22 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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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

ENGL 105 · Intro to Latino/a Literature and Culture83

English & Comparative Literature

This course provides an overview of the literary history and criticism of Latino/a literature and media. Through a combination of critical and literary theory, we will focus on works Latino/a-centered texts including poetry, prose, film,…

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ENGL 392 · Modern American Writing and the Problem of War83

English & Comparative Literature

America has been at war continuously since 9/11 and almost continuously since the late 19th century. Explore writings by American novelists and poets (Twain, Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Wright, H.D., and others) who revealed the…

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ENGL 381 · How Free Can We Be in the Modern World? Realism and Naturalism in American Literature, 1860-194078

English & Comparative Literature

Realist and naturalist novelists wondered if Americans were becoming more or less free. Was moral choice possible in a capitalist society devoted to money-making? Could African Americans achieve equality or was racism irreversible? Could…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Lehigh University English & Comparative Literature has 20 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Lehigh University · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share5.9—119—
English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share6.36.0 – 6.719,071—
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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