ERAL 1100
First-Year Seminar · 1 instructor on record · 65 sections
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.
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.
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.
Limited to small groups of 12 first-year students each, First-Year Seminars are led by full-time faculty members from the Lynch School of Education & Human Development. Seminars dive into a topic of the faculty members choosing and range across various fields of expertise. First-year students will deepen their intellectual habits, academic expectations, and learning practices essential for success at the LSEHD.Students participate in weekly 90-minute sessions during Fall and in complementary co-curricular experiences in Fall & Spring. To receive full credit, students must participate in all activities and will receive a final grade at the end of the Spring term. This course is required for all first-year students at LSEHD starting Fall 2026.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Whitcavitch-DevoyExperience, Reflection, Action: Lynch | 7565 records | 25th | 0th |
There is no ranking to read here: Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy is the only instructor with evaluation records for ERAL 1100, so the number is a record, not a position.
Also taught by Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy
6 other classes| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| ERAL 1112First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action | 165 records | 64 |
| COMM 2125Introduction to Feminisms | 416 records | 81 |
| ERAL 4000First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action | 510 records | 89 |
| ERAL 4101Cybersecurity: Innovation, Technology, and Formative Development | 16 records | 75 |
| ENGL 2125Introduction to Feminisms | 34 records | 83 |
| ERAL 3300ERA Undergraduate Teaching Interns and Peer Mentors | 14 records | 84 |
Other ERAL classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| ERAL 1112First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action | 165 records | 64 |
| ERAL 4000First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action | 510 records | 89 |
| ERAL 4101Cybersecurity: Innovation, Technology, and Formative Development | 16 records | 75 |
| ERAL 3300ERA Undergraduate Teaching Interns and Peer Mentors | 14 records | 84 |
The line
All 13 items · means across 65 recordsBar 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
65 sections · newest firstShowing the first 25.
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.