English & Comparative Literature
Study of Brecht's epic (Marxist) theater and its impact on contemporary dramatic theory and theatrical practice; an introduction to Brecht's poetry of engagement.
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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%.
0%35%
Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall
0%Far left92–100
31%Left75–91
31%Center-left59–74
10%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
14%Right9–25
14%Far right0–8
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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
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)…
English & Comparative Literature
Analysis and discussion of the cultural contexts, modes of expression, and self-definitions of women writers in modern France from the Revolution of 1789 to the post-1968 revolutions in feminist theory and practice. Prerequisites: 01:420:215, 216, 217, 218, or placement.
Furthest-right subjects
English & Comparative Literature
Examination of transformation of Nietzsche's bermensch (overman) into the American Superman heroes of our contemporary culture. Analysis of impact of this motif on gender studies, animal studies, and contemporary media technologies:…
English & Comparative Literature
Exploration of important role of cinema during Nazi era. Study of historical situation in Germany between 1933 and 1945, and of representative films produced in Germany under the Nazi regime. Focus on the staging of power, representations…
English & Comparative Literature
Development of anti-Semitism in modern European history, culminating in the "Final Solution"; special emphasis on Jewish response and resistance. Credit not given for both this course and 01:510:261.
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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