BCOM 1021
Essential Business Communication · 7 instructors on record · 48 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.
Essential Business Communication is a one-credit asynchronous course designed to support sophomores (and second-semester first-year students) transitioning from academic to business writing and preparing them for on-the-job communication. Students learn how to boost their business writing and presentation skills through various activities, including analyzing audiences, writing everyday business communication, collaborating, and presenting. Instructors and writing coaches provide individualized feedback to students in this online environment. The course is graded pass/fail. The course will be offered in one five-week term within a semester.
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. 2 of the 7 rows carry a mark saying so.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rita OwensSenior Lecturer · Business Law and Society | 939 records | 33rd | 7th |
| 2 | Erica GrafUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics fewer records | 945 records | 43rd | 11th |
| 3 | Cristina MirshekariUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics | 875 records | 25th | 3rd |
| 4 | Evangelia StefanakosUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics | 8610 records | 30th | 21st |
| 5 | Adriana FarellaUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics | 858 records | 25th | 7th |
| 6 | Jocelyn RiceUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics fewer records | 783 records | 25th | 4th |
| 7 | Monetta EdwardsUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics | 798 records | 39th | 2nd |
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.
The line
All 13 items · means across 48 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
48 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelia Stefanakos | Spring 2026 | 06 | 89 | 82 | — |
| Cristina Mirshekari | Spring 2026 | 07 | 85 | 76 | 40 |
| Evangelia Stefanakos | Fall 2025 | 04 | 86 | 87 | 40 |
| Cristina Mirshekari | Fall 2025 | 05 | 92 | 86 | 40 |
| Evangelia Stefanakos | Spring 2025 | 06 | 76 | 70 | 40 |
| Cristina Mirshekari | Spring 2025 | 07 | 86 | 78 | — |
| Adriana Farella | Fall 2024 | 04 | 80 | 75 | 40 |
| Cristina Mirshekari | Fall 2024 | 05 | 84 | 78 | 40 |
| Monetta Edwards | Spring 2024 | 06 | 88 | 80 | 40 |
| Cristina Mirshekari | Spring 2024 | 07 | 88 | 75 | 40 |
| Jocelyn Rice | Spring 2023 | 06 | 77 | 73 | 40 |
| Evangelia Stefanakos | Spring 2023 | 07 | 85 | 83 | — |
| Rita Owens | Fall 2022 | 05 | 83 | 73 | 40 |
| Evangelia Stefanakos | Fall 2022 | 07 | 80 | 75 | 60 |
| Jocelyn Rice | Spring 2022 | 02 | 91 | 71 | 40 |
| Jocelyn Rice | Midterm Fall 2022 | 01 | 67 | 53 | — |
| Rita Owens | 2024FALL1 | 01 | 93 | 85 | 40 |
| Rita Owens | Midterm Fall 2023 | 01 | 94 | 88 | — |
| Rita Owens | Midterm Fall 2025 | 01 | 92 | 87 | 60 |
| Rita Owens | Midterm Spring 2022 | 01 | 98 | 87 | 60 |
| Rita Owens | Midterm Spring 2024 | 01 | 94 | 88 | 60 |
| Rita Owens | Midterm Spring 2025 | 01 | 100 | 94 | 40 |
| Rita Owens | Midterm Spring 2026 | 01 | 93 | 88 | 40 |
| Rita Owens | Spring 1 2023 | 01 | 87 | 78 | — |
| Adriana Farella | Midterm Fall 2025 | 02 | 93 | 93 | — |
Showing the first 25.
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.