COMM 2331
Black Global Media: Making and Unmaking the News · 1 instructor on record · 1 section
Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 75% of BC classes.
The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.
How is this worked out?
That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.
How is this worked out?
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.
One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.
How is this worked out?
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 may be used to satisfy one of four electives required within the Communication major.How do questions about Blackness complicate how we think about news media globally? This course offers an overview of news making practices and their relationship to race. Through weekly analysis of relevant media scholarship, news, and popular materials, the course will explore critical issues facing news media's role in shaping perceptions of Black communities. We will analyze how individual Black media makers, various Black presses, and online media have challenged and/or been complicit in stereotypical framing. The course is ideal for students who want to be more critical news consumers and wish to broaden their knowledge of media systems and representations of Blackness beyond the United States.
| Instructor | Curve | Easiness | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence MadengaAssistant Professor · Communication Provisional | 7988 raw · 1 record | 84+2 to the score | 29th |
There is no ranking to read here: Florence Madenga is the only instructor with evaluation records for COMM 2331, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.
Also taught by Florence Madenga
3 other classesOther COMM classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| COMM 1030Public Speaking | 1166 records | 83 |
| COMM 1065Fundamentals of Creative Communication | 746 records | 79 |
| COMM 1010The Rhetorical Tradition | 320 records | 83 |
| COMM 1020Introduction to Media Studies | 220 records | 83 |
| COMM 2213Fundamentals of Audio I | 120 records | 85 |
| COMM 1060Anti-Social Media | 217 records | 95 |
The line
All 13 items · means across 1 recordBars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.
What each item asks
- Explains Clearly
- The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
- Available
- The instructor was available for help outside of class.
- Motivating
- The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
- Sparks Interest
- The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
- Organized
- The course was well organized.
- Clear Goals
- The learning objectives for the course were clear.
- Useful Later
- What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
- Assignments
- Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
- Fast Feedback
- I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
- Useful Feedback
- The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
- Workload
- How 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.
- Challenge
- The course was intellectually challenging.
- Attendance
- Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.
Why these numbers are curved
Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. 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
1 section · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florence Madenga | Fall 2025 | 01 | 88 | 87 | 40 |
How to read this board
Instructors 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.