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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · English & Comparative Literature

1.6% of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign'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 Urbana-Champaign: 1.6% 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

0%Left75–91

100%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 framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

Furthest left

ENGL 442 · Contemporary British and Irish Literature67

English & Comparative Literature

This course considers how the unresolved problems of the past continue to haunt the literature of contemporary Britain, Ireland, and the postcolonial Anglophone world. These "returns of the repressed" range from personal traumas and…

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CWL 207 · Indian Cinema in Context62

English & Comparative Literature

Introduction to Indian mainstream (mainly Bollywood) cinema and its evolution through the last seven decades. Topics to be explored include, but not limited to, the relation between Indian society/culture and its cinematic representations,…

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ENGL 285 · Postcolonial Literature in English60

English & Comparative Literature

Examination of selected postcolonial literature, theory, and film as texts that "write back" to dominant European representations of power, identity, gender and the Other. Postcolonial writers, critics and filmmakers studied may include…

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Furthest right

None. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign English & Comparative Literature has 3 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 Illinois Urbana-Champaign · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	1.6	—	191	—
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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