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ARTS 1701

The Art of Creativity: From Buzzword to Artwork · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

61BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021

—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

13thMore challenging than 13% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

83BC — “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

85thMore work than 85% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

70BC — “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.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Sheila GallagherAssociate Professor, Studio Art · Art, Art History, and Film Provisional	642 records	85th	13th	1002 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Sheila Gallagher is the only instructor with evaluation records for ARTS 1701, 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 Sheila Gallagher

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ARTS 1103Issues and Approaches to Studio Art	59 records	71
ARTS 4473Senior Project II	25 records	79
ARTS 4498Senior Project I	25 records	73
ARTS 3334Advanced Mixed Media	12 records	90
ARTS 2215Collage and Mixed Media	11 record	92
ARTS 5598Teaching Assistantship	11 record	—

Other ARTS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ARTS 1101Drawing I: Foundations	1045 records	76
ARTS 1102Painting I: Foundations	740 records	81
ARTS 1156Imagemaking with Photoshop and Illustrator	734 records	88
ARTS 1141Ceramics I	423 records	87
ARTS 1163Introduction to Digital Photography	522 records	91
ARTS 1161Photography I	520 records	93

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.

806th pctl

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

751st pctl

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

806th pctl

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

814th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

776th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

753rd pctl

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

8513th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

819th pctl

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

725th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8111th 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.

7085th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8313th pctl

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

9886th 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
Sheila Gallagher	Fall 2021	01	69	62	60
Sheila Gallagher	Fall 2021	02	60	60	80

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.