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Positions 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.

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CLAS 1705

Death in Russian Literature: Heroes, Cowards, Humans · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of
91BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023
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
BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 records — does not contribute

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of
BC — “Workload”2 records — does not contribute

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallengeRMP overall
Thomas EpsteinProfessor of the Practice · Classical Studies Provisional922 records6813 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Epstein is the only instructor with evaluation records for CLAS 1705, 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 Thomas Epstein

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
ENGL 1080Literature Core90257 records80
CLAS 1703St. Petersburg: Dream and Reality14 records87
UNAS 3308Modernism in Paris24 records98
FILM 2211Russian Cinema13 records95
UNAS 1715War and Peace: Historical and Literary Experiences13 records69
CLAS 1604Perspectives on Art: Techniques and Technology12 records73

Other CLAS classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
CLAS 1057Intermediate Latin II417 records85
CLAS 1011Elementary Latin II416 records83
CLAS 1056Intermediate Latin I314 records82
CLAS 1010Elementary Latin I312 records80
CLAS 1020Elementary Ancient Greek I16 records95
CLAS 1021Elementary Ancient Greek II16 records94

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

2 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Thomas EpsteinFall 2023019088
Thomas EpsteinFall 2023029593

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.