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University of California-Santa Cruz · English & Comparative Literature

3.6% of University of California-Santa Cruz'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-Santa Cruz: 3.6% 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

7%Left75–91

93%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

14 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

LIT 160K · Race, Labor, and Migration75

English & Comparative Literature

Examines racialized labor from the mid-19th century to the present, including the racial protest novel as a cultural form. Investigates race, gender, and citizenship as technologies used to regulate labor and to circumscribe labor's power.…

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LIT 109X · Marxist Literary Criticism74

English & Comparative Literature

This course is an opportunity for students to engage with the tradition of Marxist literary and cultural criticism. The course begins with Marx's own writings and then explores how Marx's thought has been adapted and developed in diverse…

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LIT 160I · Race, Militarism, and Empire in Asia and the Pacific72

English & Comparative Literature

Theoretical and historical inquiry into the relationship between race, militarism, and empire; a comparative examination of the Japanese and U.S. empires in the Asia-Pacific region; and a consideration of how liberal ideologies around race…

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Furthest right

None. University of California-Santa Cruz English & Comparative Literature has 14 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
University of California-Santa Cruz · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	3.6	—	385	—
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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