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University of California-Riverside · English & Comparative Literature

4% of University of California-Riverside'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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University of California-Riverside: 4% 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

49%Left75–91

37%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

2%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

7%Far right0–8

41 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

CPLT 180 (E-Z) · Literature and Related Fields83

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior. A critical survey of the theories and methodologies involved in the comparative study of literature and nonliterary fields. E.…

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CPLT 270 · Modern African Literature83

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; written work, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or consent of instructor. Examines literary portrayals of colonialism, post-colonialism and independence and their impact on understandings about space, women, gender,…

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ENGL 121 · Special Topics in Postcolonial Literatures83

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior; or lower-division English course (other than composition); or consent of instructor. Analyzes colonial discourse and the…

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Furthest-right subjects

CPLT 070 · Introduction to African Literature0

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): none. An introduction to African literature in English. Traces the history of African literary traditions from its oral beginnings to the early 2000s. Themes include colonialism across the…

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CPLT 115 · Modern German History Through Film0

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores twentieth- century German history through film. Includes World Wars I and II, inflation and polarization of classes, Nazi Germany,…

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CPLT 176 · The Holocaust in Literature, Film and Culture0

English & Comparative Literature

, 3 hours; screening, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior. Examines the Shoah, the Hebrew term for the World War II genocide also known as The Holocaust. Reviews texts in multiple genres and…

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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
University of California-Riverside · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	4	—	225	—
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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