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ENGL 3220

Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2025

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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

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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.

According to Harvard historian and educator, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, "These are treacherous times in education. We are living in an age of bullies where schools are once again in the crosshairs of the culture wars. In this context, to fight the forces of bigotry and censorship is as risky as it is urgent." In this course we will examine some of the political and social movements over the last decades to ban certain books and topics in American classrooms. Our primary focus will be on reading the banned books and developing approaches to how they might be taught in a variety of educational contexts and the potential challenges that might arise. We will also examine the reasons for and value in teaching particular texts. Possible books include:The Bluest Eye, The Hate U Give, All Boys Arent Blue, Flamer, Felix Ever After. This course will be of particular interest to future educators who will be confronted by the many efforts to ban certain books or topics in American classrooms. However, our broader goal will be to better understand and challenge the efforts to limit what can be read and taught in our schools.This course fulfills the Race, Blackness, and Language requirement for English majors.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Marla DerosaProfessor of the Practice; Director of Undergraduate Studies · English Provisional	911 record	25th	9th	949 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Marla Derosa is the only instructor with evaluation records for ENGL 3220, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Marla Derosa

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ENGL 1080Literature Core	90257 records	80
ENGL 1729The Role of Literature in Understanding the Complex Meaning of Justice	16 records	95
ENGL 3011The Art of Tutoring Writing	35 records	91
ENGL 1110First Year Writing Seminar: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration	14 records	87
ENGL 1180Lit Core: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration	14 records	92
ENGL 2141American Literary History I	24 records	87

Other ENGL classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ENGL 1010First Year Writing Seminar	136442 records	80
ENGL 1080Literature Core	90257 records	80
ENGL 1079Literature Core for Multilingual Students	1340 records	89
ENGL 2221Introduction to Creative Writing	936 records	90
ENGL 2133Studies in Narrative	1634 records	87
ENGL 2131Studies in Poetry	1333 records	84

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.

9349th pctl

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

9670th pctl

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

9671st pctl

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

9555th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8936th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8519th pctl

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

9458th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9470th pctl

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

789th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9148th 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.

9042nd 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
Marla Derosa	Fall 2025	01	91	88	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.