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ADCY 6900

Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity · 1 instructor on record · 6 sections

What the course score is made of

73BC evaluations6 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – Summer 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

74thMore challenging than 74% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

94BC — “Intellectually Challenging”6 records · 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

81stMore work than 81% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

67BC — “Workload”6 records · 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

6 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Deborah HurleyPart-Time Faculty · Computer Science	756 records	81st	74th	2010 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Deborah Hurley is the only instructor with evaluation records for ADCY 6900, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Deborah Hurley

3 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
CSCI 2268Data, Ethics and Society	16 records	71
LAWS 4416Privacy Law	35 records	84
MCCS 2268Data, Ethics and Society	12 records	57

Other ADCY classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ADCY 6050Cybersecurity Policy: Privacy and Legal Requirements	425 records	91
ADCY 6350Incident Response and Management	419 records	89
ADCY 6300Network and Infrastructure Security	415 records	87
ADCY 6000Cyber Ecosystem and Cybersecurity	413 records	85
ADCY 6640National Security: Law, Policy, & Government Investigations	212 records	93
ADCY 6450CYBER Investigations and Digital Forensics	411 records	92

The line

All 13 items · means across 6 records

The Professor4 items

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

783rd pctl

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

9132nd pctl

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

794th pctl

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

803rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8317th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8110th pctl

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

794th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

796th pctl

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

7910th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

808th 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.

6781st pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9474th pctl

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

651st 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

6 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Deborah Hurley	Summer 2025	01	70	55	—
Deborah Hurley	Summer 2024	01	100	100	80
Deborah Hurley	Summer 2023	01	87	87	—
Deborah Hurley	Spring 2023	01	60	60	—
Deborah Hurley	Summer 2022	01	55	60	60
Deborah Hurley	Spring 2022	01	76	75	60

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.