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University of Rochester · English & Comparative Literature

1.2% of University of Rochester'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 Rochester: 1.2% 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

20%Left75–91

60%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

20%Far right0–8

5 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 555 · Theorizing Horror78

English & Comparative Literature

The horror film has consistently put on spectacular, fantastic display a range of historically and culturally specific fears and anxieties. The genre has been especially generative for theorists seeking to understand the somatic and…

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ENGL 103 · Rochester, NY67

English & Comparative Literature

This course introduces students to Rochester, NY, through the eyes of the humanities. We discuss the city's museum exhibits and public murals, parks and cemeteries, memorial monuments and statues, photographs and speeches, drama and prose…

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ENGL 240 · Language in Religion and Science67

English & Comparative Literature

This course addresses questions such as these: Do species have "origins"? Does the universe have a beginning? What is meant by "creation"? Are "fundamental" particles related to religious fundamentalism? Is cognitive science connected to…

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Furthest-right subjects

CLTR 226B · Modern Anti-Semitism in Germany0

English & Comparative Literature

This course will explore "Anti-Semitism" as a historical phenomenon and a rhetorical one from the end of the 18th Century until today, particularily in Germany. We also aim to examine the specific discoursive history of anti-semitic tropes…

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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 Rochester · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	1.2	—	81	—
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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