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CLAS 2230

Classical Mythology · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

86BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – 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

39thMore challenging than 39% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

89BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 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

43rdMore work than 43% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

53BC — “Workload”5 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 course explores the mythology of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East within its cultural, political, historical, and religious contexts. You will meet (or renew your acquaintance with) mythical figures like Zeus, Gilgamesh, Medusa, and Helen as they appear in multiple literary genres and other artistic media. In order to analyze and interrogate these myths we will use ancient and modern frameworks for thinking about what mythology is and what it does. What can a myth tell us about the civilization that created, adopted, or adapted it? What do our uses of Classical mythology--and our creations of our own myths--tell us about ourselves?

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Hanne EisenfeldClassical Studies	915 records	43rd	39th	1004 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Hanne Eisenfeld is the only instructor with evaluation records for CLAS 2230, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Hanne Eisenfeld

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
CLAS 1011Elementary Latin II	416 records	83
CLAS 1056Intermediate Latin I	314 records	82
CLAS 1053Intermediate Ancient Greek II	26 records	95
CLAS 1052Intermediate Ancient Greek I	25 records	83
CLAS 1701Death in Ancient Greece: Achilles to Alexander the Great	12 records	81
CLAS 2240Dangerous Women in Classical Literature	12 records	92

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 5 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9557th pctl

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

9667th pctl

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

9346th pctl

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

9551st pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9573rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9570th pctl

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

8927th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9041st pctl

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

8318th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9463rd 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.

5343rd pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8939th pctl

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

9146th 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

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Hanne Eisenfeld	Fall 2025	01	92	87	40
Hanne Eisenfeld	Fall 2024	01	90	86	60
Hanne Eisenfeld	Fall 2023	01	88	83	60
Hanne Eisenfeld	Fall 2022	01	90	87	—
Hanne Eisenfeld	Fall 2021	01	94	88	—

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.