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Rutgers University-New Brunswick · English & Comparative Literature

0.9% of Rutgers University-New Brunswick'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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Rutgers University-New Brunswick: 0.9% 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

0%Left75–91

71%Center-left59–74

29%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

7 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

01:560:362 · Women's Lives and Literature69

English & Comparative Literature

Women's writing in the Italian context, from the end of the 19th century to the present. Analysis and discussion of literary works testifying to women's struggle for social and economic freedom and access to knowledge.

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01:420:313 · Gender and Sexuality in Modern France and the Francophone World64

English & Comparative Literature

Survey of modern and contemporary works from France and the Francophone world that challenge conventional representations of gender and sexuality. Works to be discussed (from comparative feminist, queer, trans, and critical race approaches)…

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01:940:230 · Food for Thought: Food Culture in the Spanish-speaking World63

English & Comparative Literature

This course examines how food shapes our identity, gender, race, and ethnicity by exploring its cultural and historical significance in Spain and Latin America. We will analyze how food has been instrumentalized to reinforce dominant…

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Furthest right

None. Rutgers University-New Brunswick English & Comparative Literature has 7 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
Rutgers University-New Brunswick · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	0.9	—	756	—
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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