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University of Notre Dame · English & Comparative Literature

8.5% of University of Notre Dame'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 Notre Dame: 8.5% 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

50%Left75–91

44%Center-left59–74

3%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

3%Far right0–8

36 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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

ENGL 20961 · Creating Criptopia: Disability and Queerness in Utopia Literature91

English & Comparative Literature

In 1516 Sir Thomas More's Utopia founded a new literary genre: utopian literature. Since then, many different versions of utopia have been imagined in both fiction and non-fiction literature. But where do queer and disabled people fit into…

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ENGL 90726 · Race, Law and Utopia in Atlantic America91

English & Comparative Literature

In her provocative 2012 study, Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender, Janell Hobson underlines what we know today be true in the face of police brutality and the energy of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as those of…

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ENGL 44903 · Transcultural Literatures88

English & Comparative Literature

Taught as ENGL3603 -'Transcultural Literatures' at a host institution. This unit involves an engagement with postcolonial texts and their contexts. These texts may include novels, short stories and films from the Caribbean, China, Africa,…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 44702 · American Horror Stories0

English & Comparative Literature

This module focuses on real-life 'American Horror Stories': twentieth and twenty-first century popular fiction narratives explicitly or implicitly informed by some of the most disruptive and disturbing true-life events to have shaped 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 Notre Dame · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	8.5	—	200	—
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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