BSLW 2222
Real Estate Transactions · 2 instructors on record · 5 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.
Real Estate Transactions, is a new course that will examine real estate deals through a practitioner perspective that integrates the business and legal aspects of acquiring land and buildings; designing, developing and constructing buildings; financing and loan workouts; leasing and landlord/tenant rights; managing, operating and selling income property. The course will look at each step of the process in consummating a real estate transaction and the role of various parties - property owner; bank or other lender; investor and buyer of tax credits; tenant; attorneys for different parties; city agency; architect; general contractor and others integral to the success (or failure) of the transaction. The course will be team-taught by a CSOM business and law professor, each with many years of teaching and practical experience negotiating, documenting and closing real estate transactions. The format of the course will include lectures, many case studies, simulations of negotiating transactions and selected guest speakers to supplement the course work with real world experiences. The primary student learning goals are to understand the complexity of business and legal issues in a real estate transaction; how to document key aspects in term sheets, letters of intent and other steps in the process; and, develop sound and effective negotiating skills.
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 | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph HerlihyBusiness Law Provisional | 902 records | 25th | 37th | —no page |
| 2 | Edward ChazenSenior Lecturer · Business Law and Society | 873 records | 25th | 37th | 601 rating · all classes |
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. 1 of 2 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 RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach; that site has no course dimension, so it is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.
The line
All 13 items · means across 5 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
5 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Chazen | Fall 2025 | 01 | 87 | 83 | 40 |
| Joseph Herlihy | Fall 2025 | 01 | 87 | 83 | 40 |
| Edward Chazen | Fall 2024 | 01 | 88 | 87 | 40 |
| Joseph Herlihy | Fall 2024 | 01 | 93 | 87 | 40 |
| Edward Chazen | Fall 2023 | 01 | 87 | 85 | — |
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.