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Yale University · English & Comparative Literature

9.7% of Yale University'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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Yale University: 9.7% English & Comparative Literature at all 100 schools: 6.3% each other school in the comparison

Where English & Comparative Literature courses fall

15%Far left92–100

48%Left75–91

32%Center-left59–74

2%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

2%Right9–25

2%Far right0–8

62 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

LITR 377 · Haiti in the Age of Revolutions100

English & Comparative Literature

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was an event of monumental world-historical significance. This class studies the collection of slave revolts and military strikes beginning in August of 1791 that resulted in the eventual abolition of…

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CPLT 667 · Karl Marx’s Capital Volume II, The Circulation System96

English & Comparative Literature

We spend the semester carefully studying Volume II of Marx’s Capital, along with relevant drafts, letters, and selected criticism. Volume II analyzes the circulation system, what Marx called in a letter to Engels “the social intertwining of…

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ENGL 915 · Western and Postcolonial Marxist Cultural Theory96

English & Comparative Literature

An introduction to classic twentieth-century Western and postcolonial Marxist theorists and texts focusing on historical and intellectual exchange between these critical formations. Reading theoretical works in conjunction with some…

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Furthest-right subjects

ENGL 187 · Love and Hate in the American South0

English & Comparative Literature

An introduction to the literature and culture of the American South, a region of the mind identified with the former Confederate States of America and fabricated from a mix of beautiful dreams and violent nightmares, including: histories of…

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LITR 397 · After the War, Novels after 1945, French and German17

English & Comparative Literature

How to write, how to narrate after war? In this course we read alternatingly some of the greatest novels and novellas after 1945 (until ca. 1968) from German speaking countries and from France. This can but does not necessarily mean novels…

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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
Yale University · English & Comparative Literature	bias_left_share	9.7	—	267	—
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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