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ADSO 3510

Race, Surveillance, and Society · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

82BC evaluations5 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

64thMore challenging than 64% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

93BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 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

100thMore work than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “Workload”5 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.

Under the institution of slavery, Black bodies were heavily surveilled through severe monitoring, disciplining, and punishing practices. Although slavery has been abolished, these technologies for surveillance continue to resonate in the contemporary era. From data collection to ancestry tests or artificial intelligence, this course focuses on how society defines, automates, and monitors racial difference. Students will explore the concept of surveillance and its impact on conceptions of race and society from enslavement to the present day. The sociological framing of surveillance equips students with a language to not only unpack, but address contemporary issues within societal institutions such as prisons, health centers, and mass media.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Candace KingAdvancing Studies	835 records	100th	64th

There is no ranking to read here: Candace King is the only instructor with evaluation records for ADSO 3510, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Candace King

2 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ADSO 3503Race, Gender, and Violence	14 records	80
ADSO 3511Special Topics: Captive Bodies: Race, Resistance, and the Archive	12 records	75

Other ADSO classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ADSO 3003The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and Political Crisis	19 records	87
ADSO 1001Introduction to Sociology	26 records	87
ADSO 3503Race, Gender, and Violence	14 records	80
ADSO 1030Deviance and Social Control	23 records	91
ADSO 2501Sociological Theories	13 records	98
ADSO 2900The Age of Misinformation	23 records	81

The line

All 13 items · means across 5 records

The Professor4 items

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

8511th pctl

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

762nd pctl

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

839th pctl

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

8920th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8935th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8829th pctl

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

9463rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9361st pctl

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

735th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

765th 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.

100100th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9364th pctl

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

9253rd 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

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Candace King	Summer 2025	01	68	72	—
Candace King	Summer 2024	01	87	93	100
Candace King	Fall 2023	01	78	76	—
Candace King	Summer 2023	01	93	89	—
Candace King	Spring 2022	01	89	82	—

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.