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University of Illinois-Chicago · English & Comparative Literature

0.8% of University of Illinois-Chicago'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 Illinois-Chicago: 0.8% 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

33%Left75–91

67%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

3 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 345 · Queer Theory78

English & Comparative Literature

Survey of theoretical concerns and historical issues that inform and shape the field of queer studies. Course Information: Same as GWS 345. Previously listed as ENGL 362. Recommended background: Any of ENGL 207-209, ENGL 245, or GWS 203.

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ENGL 388 · Writing for the Health Professions72

English & Comparative Literature

A writing course for pre-health and English students interested in health humanities to explore how structural racism, social inequities, and medical biases perpetuate health disparities, and the ways writing can advocate for health…

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ENGL 449 · Women and Film67

English & Comparative Literature

Roles and representations of women in classical Hollywood, European art and independent feminist cinemas. Course Information: Same as AH 449 and GWS 449. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Previously listed as ENGL 472. Recommended…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Illinois-Chicago English & Comparative Literature has 3 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
University of Illinois-Chicago · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	0.8	—	119	—
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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