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APSY 3234

Trauma and Healing through the Lens of Intimate Partner Violence · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

92BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2024 – 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

42ndMore challenging than 42% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

89BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “Workload”2 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.

This course explores the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV), including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, from ecological and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on IPV as a core example of interpersonal violence more broadly, five central questions of the course will be 1) What are the psychological consequences of trauma in general, and IPV in particular? 2) How do interpersonal, ideological, and institutional factors shape survivors experience of and responses to trauma 3) How have various systems developed to address the complex social problem of IPV, both for good and for ill? 4) How do intersecting identities, social and material contexts, and institutional structures facilitate and impede healing? 5) How do our own backgrounds and positionalities shape the way we understand IPV and the people who experience, perpetrate, or respond to it? Building empathy, mutual respect, and community both within and outside the classroom will be central concerns.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Lisa GoodmanCounseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology Provisional	902 records	25th	42nd	1001 rating · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Lisa Goodman is the only instructor with evaluation records for APSY 3234, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, 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 Lisa Goodman

5 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
APSY 2241Mental Illness: Social and Clinical Perspectives	820 records	92
APSY 9844Counseling Psychology in Context: Social Action, Consultation, and Collaboration	39 records	83
APSY 3310Contemporary Issues in Applied Psychology and Human Development	46 records	91
APSY 9849Doctoral Internship in Counseling Psychology	24 records	100
UNAS 1701Oppression and Change in the Contemporary United States: Sociocultural and Psychological Perspective	11 record	94

Other APSY classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
APSY 7748Foundations of Counseling II	3296 records	85
APSY 7440Foundations of Counseling I	1164 records	85
APSY 1030Child Development	1558 records	80
APSY 1031Family, School, and Society	1443 records	83
APSY 7661Practicum and Internship Seminar II	1343 records	90
APSY 7660Practicum and Internship Seminar I	1339 records	88

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

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

9557th pctl

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

9345th pctl

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

9559th pctl

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

9664th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9469th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9575th pctl

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

9783rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9681st pctl

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

9678th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9677th 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.

4025th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8942nd pctl

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

9568th 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

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Lisa Goodman	Fall 2025	01	97	98	40
Lisa Goodman	Fall 2024	01	83	86	40

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.