ARTH 2205
Early American Art · 1 instructor on record · 8 sections
Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 74% of BC classes.
The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.
How is this worked out?
That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.
How is this worked out?
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.
One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.
How is this worked out?
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.
In this course we will look at art and visual culture made in what is now the United States from ancient times to around 1800. We will consider a wide range of visual material, including Native American art before and after contact with Europeans and art, architecture, and material culture from the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. This will include Lakota visual calendars,16th century watercolors depicting Native hunting and agriculture, colorful paintings of both elite Bostonians and Revolutionary War battles, and innovative portraiture by the first generation of professional African American artists. Throughout, we will ask what it means to be American both in the past and in our own time.
| Instructor | Curve | Easiness | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asher AndersonPart-time Faculty, Art History · Art, Art History, and Film | 7888 raw · 8 records | 83+2 to the score | 17th | 1001 rating · all classes |
There is no ranking to read here: Asher Anderson is the only instructor with evaluation records for ARTH 2205, 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 Asher Anderson
6 other classes| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| ARTH 2258Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-1945 | 35 records | 84 |
| ARTH 4401Seminar in Art Historical Research | 35 records | 88 |
| ARTH 2285History of Photography | 14 records | 81 |
| ARTH 3368Contemporary Photography | 14 records | 83 |
| ARTH 2204Postwar: Art After 1945 | 23 records | 87 |
| ARTH 3362Photography and Modernism | 13 records | 80 |
Other ARTH classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| ARTH 1102Art: Renaissance to Modern Times | 818 records | 85 |
| ARTH 2251Modern Architecture | 110 records | 82 |
| ARTH 1101Art: Prehistoric to Middle Ages | 68 records | 76 |
| ARTH 4498Independent Study | 56 records | 100 |
| ARTH 1107History of Architecture | 15 records | 81 |
| ARTH 2212East Asian Art and Architecture | 25 records | 76 |
The line
All 13 items · means across 8 recordsBars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.
What each item asks
- Explains Clearly
- The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
- Available
- The instructor was available for help outside of class.
- Motivating
- The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
- Sparks Interest
- The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
- Organized
- The course was well organized.
- Clear Goals
- The learning objectives for the course were clear.
- Useful Later
- What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
- Assignments
- Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
- Fast Feedback
- I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
- Useful Feedback
- The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
- Workload
- How 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.
- Challenge
- The course was intellectually challenging.
- Attendance
- Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.
Why these numbers are curved
Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. 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
8 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asher Anderson | Spring 2026 | 01 | 85 | 74 | 40 |
| Asher Anderson | Summer 2025 | 01 | 60 | 60 | 40 |
| Asher Anderson | Spring 2025 | 01 | 88 | 80 | 40 |
| Asher Anderson | Summer 2024 | 01 | 90 | 95 | 60 |
| Asher Anderson | Spring 2024 | 01 | 90 | 84 | 40 |
| Asher Anderson | Summer 2023 | 01 | 100 | 100 | — |
| Asher Anderson | Spring 2023 | 01 | 93 | 87 | 40 |
| Asher Anderson | Spring 2022 | 01 | 96 | 91 | 40 |
How to read this board
Instructors 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.