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ECON 2243

Financial Literacy: Making Informed Personal Financial Decisions · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

76BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2026

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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

9thMore challenging than 9% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

80BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record · 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”1 record · 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.

Throughout our lives, we make many personal financial decisions and choices. These include preparing and adhering to budgets, taking out and repaying student loans, managing short-term debt (e.g., credit cards), financing major purchases (e.g., home mortgage loans), assessing the tradeoffs between consuming or investing (e.g., stocks and bonds), saving for retirement, estate planning, acquiring insurance (e.g., life and disability), and tax planning. The primary goal of this course is to provide you with the basics of financial literacy. Financial literacy is the possession of skills, knowledge, and behaviors that enable you to make informed personal financial decisions and choices. We will apply traditional (neoclassical) economic theory (rational choice theory). We will also apply concepts from behavioral economic theory (e.g. present bias and optimism bias) to understand why we do not always make rational personal financial decisions and choices. We will discuss how interventions (e.g., disclosures, nudges, and regulations) affect those decisions and choices.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
John FelterEconomics Provisional	761 record	25th	9th

There is no ranking to read here: John Felter is the only instructor with evaluation records for ECON 2243, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by John Felter

2 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ECON 3339Applying Economic Theory in the Practice of Law	18 records	78
UNAS 3333Cross Currents: Thinking About Law and Economics	16 records	90

Other ECON classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ECON 1101Principles of Economics	46223 records	73
ECON 2228Econometric Methods	33131 records	71
ECON 1151Statistics	2797 records	72
ECON 2202Macroeconomic Theory	2072 records	69
ECON 2201Microeconomic Theory	1967 records	71
ECON 9900Third Year Thesis Workshop	1440 records	91

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

The Professor4 items

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

817th pctl

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

804th pctl

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

828th pctl

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

836th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8623rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8726th pctl

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

9245th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

774th pctl

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

725th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

743rd 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.

809th pctl

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

723rd 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

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
John Felter	Spring 2026	01	76	76	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.