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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

4%Far left92–100

48%Left75–91

38%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

6%Far right0–8

48 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

LIT 146F · The Dissenting Tradition in America100

English & Comparative Literature

Antislavery writing of the 19th century profoundly shaped a resistant strain in American writing. By reading speeches, essays, and life writing along with more traditionally literary work, students examine what gives language the power to…

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LIT 160N · John Brown: Prophet or Fanatic?100

English & Comparative Literature

John Brown was a 19th-century advocate of the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of U.S. slavery. Why has a man dismissed as a fanatic been taken up as the subject of novels, biographies, popular songs, films, and even…

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LIT 109X · Marxist Literary Criticism85

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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Furthest-right subjects

LIT 80L · The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry0

English & Comparative Literature

Focus is on the destruction of the Jews of Europe by Nazi Germany. Issues are historically grounded, and include works of literature, social sciences, philosophy, and film.

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LIT 80W · Captive Minds: The Literature of Pre-modern Slavery0

English & Comparative Literature

Examines the literary production of slave societies by looking at the literatures of several pre-modern slave societies; also develops a cultural-historical narrative that explains the origins of genocidal forms of plantation slavery in the…

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LIT 185M · Fascismo e resistenza8

English & Comparative Literature

Speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in Italian required. The relationship between literature and Italian fascism is explored, including the rise and myths of fascism, critique and censorship, the persecution of minorities, the…

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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-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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