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2.1% of Purdue 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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Purdue University: 2.1% 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

65%Left75–91

30%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

4%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

23 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

ENGL 35300 · Women, Gender, Sexuality, Ethnicity, & Religion In Lit & Film Of The Middle East & South & West Asia85

English & Comparative Literature

00. This course employs anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives to examine the cultural and social politics of gender, sexualities, race and ethnicity, class and/or caste, and religion in the literature and film (Anglophone and in…

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ENG L2450 · Introduction To Caribbean Literature83

English & Comparative Literature

00. This course will introduce students to the basic themes of Caribbean literature. Specifically, we will examine the way in which Caribbean writers present a colonial past and its effect on Caribbean culture in their attempts to "write…

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ENGL 33400 · Transnational Feminist Perspectives In International Literature And Film83

English & Comparative Literature

00. Course uses anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives and intersectional analysis to examine international film and literature (in translation and Anglophone). Special attention is paid to the influence of cross-cultural…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 36500 · Literature And Imperialism17

English & Comparative Literature

00. A study through cultural and theoretical works of the impact of imperialism on the ruling nations. Syllabus Available

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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
Purdue University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	2.1	—	517	—
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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