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Swarthmore College · English & Comparative Literature

17.5% of Swarthmore College'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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Swarthmore College: 17.5% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

2%Far left92–100

21%Left75–91

63%Center-left59–74

15%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

48 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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ENGL 096B · Special Topics: Global Marx and Marxism92

English & Comparative Literature

This course focuses on the evolution of Marx's-and Marxists'-writings on global questions of empire, colonialism, and non-European societies. We will engage Marx's key materialist reading of history and his foundational categories of…

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ENGL 074A · Global South Literature84

English & Comparative Literature

Encompassing the regions of the world-Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania-outside of "the West," the Global South is more than just a geographical designation. Associated with "underdevelopment," it is the term that has come to take…

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ENGL 074B · Colonial Literature82

English & Comparative Literature

There is a longstanding debate on whether the United States is or is not an empire. Born out of anticolonial revolution, the U.S. has also from its inception been ritually celebrated as an empire-something that started to be customarily…

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Furthest right

None. Swarthmore College English & Comparative Literature has 48 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
Swarthmore College · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	17.5	—	275	—
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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