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University of Miami · English & Comparative Literature

1.8% of University of Miami'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 Miami: 1.8% 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
62%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 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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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

ENG 247 · Afrofuturism83

English & Comparative Literature

The massive success of the film Black Panther and Janelle Monae's album Dirty Computer suggests that African American artists are providing broadly resonant solutions to our most urgent political concerns, constructing alternative models of…

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ENG 346 · Black Girl Magic83

English & Comparative Literature

People have long thought that Black girls were magic, sometimes literally. From Nina Simone's unofficial title as the high priestess of soul, to the theatrical machinations of female practitioners of black magic in popular Hollywood films…

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ENG 655 · Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics83

English & Comparative Literature

Poetry and poetics from 1945 to present, focusing on Black Mountain Poetics, the New York School, the Black Arts Movement, Language Poetry and more recent writers and movements. LEC. GRD. Offered by Announcement Only.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Miami English & Comparative Literature has 13 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
University of Miami · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share1.8—163—
English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share6.36.0 – 6.719,071—
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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