ARTS 1141
Ceramics I · 4 instructors on record · 23 sections
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.
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.
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 will deal with all phases of ceramics from slab construction to bowl making and a good deal of effort will go into considering a variety of sculptural possibilities at a foundation level. This course covers the broadest range of ceramic techniques and information. The emphasis in the second semester will be on combining the various techniques and concepts acquired previously into a working order, as well as an exposure to additional technical and conceptual information. Those students starting ceramics in second semester will be given individual assistance in beginning techniques.
Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catherine Della LuciaStudio Art Provisional | 931 record | 78th | 21st |
| 2 | Kiana BeckmenStudio Art Provisional | 921 record | — | 9th |
| 3 | Geoffrey BoorasStudio Art Provisional | 842 records | 39th | 17th |
| 4 | Mark CooperProfessor of the Practice, Studio Art · Art, Art History, and Film | 8419 records | 43rd | 11th |
How this board is orderedPositions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.
Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse. 3 of 4 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row.
The line
All 13 items · means across 23 recordsBar 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
23 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2026 | 01 | 83 | 90 | 40 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2026 | 02 | 80 | 87 | 60 |
| Catherine Della Lucia | Spring 2026 | 03 | 93 | 91 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2025 | 01 | 64 | 76 | 40 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2025 | 02 | 70 | 78 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2025 | 03 | 80 | 88 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2025 | 01 | 82 | 87 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2025 | 02 | 89 | 91 | 60 |
| Geoffrey Booras | Spring 2025 | 03 | 87 | 81 | 40 |
| Geoffrey Booras | Fall 2024 | 01 | 80 | 72 | 60 |
| Kiana Beckmen | Fall 2024 | 02 | 92 | 83 | — |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2024 | 01 | 75 | 82 | 40 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2024 | 02 | 85 | 86 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2023 | 01 | 91 | 93 | — |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2023 | 02 | 87 | 89 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2023 | 01 | 87 | 88 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2023 | 02 | 86 | 90 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2022 | 01 | 91 | 95 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2022 | 02 | 91 | 91 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2022 | 01 | 92 | 93 | — |
| Mark Cooper | Spring 2022 | 02 | 86 | 86 | 40 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2021 | 03 | 77 | 78 | 60 |
| Mark Cooper | Fall 2021 | 04 | 98 | 98 | 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.