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AADS 4805

Series on Black Writers: Marlon James · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

70BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.

What the challenge rank is made of

48thMore challenging than 48% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

90BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

93rdMore work than 93% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

80BC — “Workload”1 record · raw score out of 100

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Rhonda FrederickProfessor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies · English Provisional	801 record	93rd	48th	428 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Rhonda Frederick is the only instructor with evaluation records for AADS 4805, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Rhonda Frederick

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ENGL 1080Literature Core	90257 records	80
ENGL 2470Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers	13 records	80
ENGL 2199Introduction to Caribbean Writers	12 records	77
AADS 1108Intro to African Diaspora Literatures	11 record	90
ENGL 1187Lit Core: Narratives of Slavery	11 record	67
ENGL 1749Creatively Re/Imagining Black Worlds: Black Literature Making Up To Make Real	11 record	—

Other AADS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
AADS 1110Introduction to African Diaspora Studies	510 records	80
AADS 1114When Gods Begin Again: Intro to African and African Diaspora Religions	310 records	84
AADS 2204Music and Social Justice	210 records	90
AADS 3310Studies of Race, Law, and Resistance	110 records	86
AADS 6600Senior Seminar: Theorizing the Diaspora	46 records	94
AADS 2182Black Popular Culture	25 records	90

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9030th pctl

Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.

600th pctl

Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.

100100th pctl

Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.

9025th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

601st pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

600th pctl

Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.

9033rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

701st pctl

Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.

100100th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

100100th pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

WorkloadHow much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.

8093rd pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9048th pctl

Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.

9042nd pctl

Bar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Rhonda Frederick	Fall 2025	01	80	70	80

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.