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CLAS 1706

The Self and its Limits: Greco-Roman Slavery · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

86BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2024 – Fall 2025

—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

48thMore challenging than 48% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

90BC — “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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “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.

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both CLAS1706 and PHIL1727. What is the relationship between the individual self and its social roles? These paired courses examine what factors make us free individuals and how that freedom has historically been removed from certain people. One course will explore the nature of the self in historical and contemporary perspectives from East and West to look at the nature of self-consciousness and personhood. The other will investigate how ancient Greeks and Romans justified the enslavement of individuals for material gain and how ancient slavery influenced American society both in terms of its use of slave-labor and in the arguments made for abolition.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Thomas SapsfordClassical Studies Provisional	912 records	25th	48th

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Sapsford is the only instructor with evaluation records for CLAS 1706, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Thomas Sapsford

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
CLAS 1057Intermediate Latin II	417 records	85
CLAS 2294Greco-Roman Egypt	13 records	81
CLAS 3334Senecan Tragedy: Medea Nunc Sum	12 records	79
CLAS 4203Everyday Aphrodite: Classics and the History of Sexuality	12 records	88
CLAS 1131History of Ballet	11 record	94
CLAS 2285The Chorus, Ancient and Modern: Forms of Communal Performance and the Body Politic	11 record	74

Other CLAS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
CLAS 1057Intermediate Latin II	417 records	85
CLAS 1011Elementary Latin II	416 records	83
CLAS 1056Intermediate Latin I	314 records	82
CLAS 1010Elementary Latin I	312 records	80
CLAS 1020Elementary Ancient Greek I	16 records	95
CLAS 1021Elementary Ancient Greek II	16 records	94

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.

9347th pctl

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

9343rd pctl

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

9668th pctl

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

9773rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9574th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9466th pctl

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

8926th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9471st pctl

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

9359th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9569th 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.

4025th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9048th pctl

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

9464th 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
Thomas Sapsford	Fall 2025	01	93	92	—
Thomas Sapsford	Fall 2024	01	89	80	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.