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Southern Methodist University · English & Comparative Literature

0% of Southern Methodist 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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Southern Methodist University: 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

50%Left75–91

50%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

2 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 3344 · Victorian Gender and Sexuality78

English & Comparative Literature

Through an exploration of fiction, poetry, drama, and other writing from the Victorian period, this course considers why so much of the literature of Victorian England still speaks meaningfully and directly about what it means to be a man…

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ENGL 3379 · Literary and Cultural Contexts of Disability: Gender, Care, and Justice67

English & Comparative Literature

An examination of disability as a cultural construct, with attention to how literary, ethical, and political representations bear upon it, and in relation to gender, race, and class issues.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Southern Methodist University English & Comparative Literature has 2 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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Southern Methodist University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	0	—	75	—
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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