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Williams College · English & Comparative Literature

16.4% of Williams College'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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Williams College: 16.4% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

5%Far left92–100
10%Left75–91
81%Center-left59–74
5%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
21 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

ENGL 294 · On Occupations: Work, Colonization and Contemporary Life (DPE)96

English & Comparative Literature

Cross-listings: COMP 299 Primary Cross-listing Reading political essays, critical theory, historiography, and literary works, in this course we will ask what thinking through the different senses of "occupation" can teach us about…

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ENGL 113 · The Feminist Poetry Movement (DPE)77

English & Comparative Literature

Cross-listings: AMST 113 / WGSS 113 Primary Cross-listing Feminist poetry and feminist politics were so integrated in the 1960s and 1970s in America that critical essays on poets, such as Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, appeared in the same…

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ENGL 316 · Unfinishing America (DPE)75

English & Comparative Literature

Cross-listings: AMST 326 Secondary Cross-listing The Great American Novel is a moribund cliché. Few would argue that any one work of fiction could capture the essence of American life. In this class, we will flip the Great American Novel on…

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Furthest right

None. Williams College English & Comparative Literature has 21 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Williams College · English & Comparative Literaturebias_left_share16.4—128—
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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