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ARTH 2205

Early American Art · 1 instructor on record · 8 sections

What the course score is made of

84BC evaluations8 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – Spring 2026

—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

17thMore challenging than 17% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “Intellectually Challenging”8 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

26thMore work than 26% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

43BC — “Workload”8 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.

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.

The only instructor on record

8 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Asher AndersonPart-time Faculty, Art History · Art, Art History, and Film	888 records	26th	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 records

The Professor4 items

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

8926th 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.

8926th pctl

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

9023rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9148th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9042nd pctl

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

838th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8623rd pctl

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

9044th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8935th 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.

4326th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8417th pctl

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

8832nd 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

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 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.