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EDUC 9201

Discourse Analysis · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

91BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – 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

89thMore challenging than 89% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

97BC — “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

81stMore work than 81% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

67BC — “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.

Discourse analysis (DA) is a broad field of research which incorporates theory and method from linguistics, anthropology, and sociology, among other disciplines. The common thread across these areas of scholarship is a commitment to studying language in action; to understanding what people do and mean with language, how people interact with language, and what people come to expect with language. Close analysis of language in context can illuminate the processes through which social constructs such as identity, power, and social selves are built. This course will cover the theoretical foundations of DA, in tandem with the methodological implications of each theory. Topics will include Speech Act theory, sequence organization and Conversation Analysis, Narrative Analysis, Classroom Discourse and Critical Discourse Analysis. The course will place an especial focus on the contributions of discourse analytic approaches to understanding educational contexts. Students will be asked to collect, transcribe, analyze, and present their own data over the course of the semester.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Kristen Bottema-BeutelTeacher Education and Currriculum and Instruction	965 records	81st	89th

There is no ranking to read here: Kristen Bottema-Beutel is the only instructor with evaluation records for EDUC 9201, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Kristen Bottema-Beutel

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
EDUC 6497Educating Autistic Students	39 records	78
EDUC 9737Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Education	46 records	90
EDUC 9951Dissertation Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction	35 records	95
EDUC 6496Foundations of Autism	24 records	94

Other EDUC classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
EDUC 7429Graduate Pre-Practicum	224 records	80
EDUC 7435Social Contexts of Education	1022 records	88
EDUC 7432Graduate Inquiry Seminar: Two	1121 records	70
EDUC 1044Education and Development for Students with Disabilities	420 records	91
EDUC 3386Introduction to Sign Language and Deafness	220 records	93
EDUC 7431Graduate Inquiry Seminar: One	1219 records	74

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.

9561st pctl

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

9558th pctl

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

9455th pctl

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

9661st pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9465th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9359th pctl

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

9033rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8832nd pctl

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

9147th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9039th 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.

6781st pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9789th pctl

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

9250th 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
Kristen Bottema-Beutel	Spring 2026	01	95	93	60
Kristen Bottema-Beutel	Spring 2025	01	97	93	—
Kristen Bottema-Beutel	Spring 2024	01	100	95	60
Kristen Bottema-Beutel	Spring 2023	01	95	90	80
Kristen Bottema-Beutel	Spring 2022	01	91	86	—

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.