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ERAL 4101

Cybersecurity: Innovation, Technology, and Formative Development · 1 instructor on record · 6 sections

What the course score is made of

75BC evaluations6 records · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2022 – Summer 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

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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

27thMore challenging than 27% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

86BC — “Intellectually Challenging”6 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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “Workload”6 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.

This course presents key formative development frameworks and examines their application to current innovations and technologies. Cyberstrategic impacts upon individuals, educational and community settings, future of work, and across key industries are considered. Students use examples and case material from health and biotechnology, environmental and energy, information sciences and social media, and human-centric applied psychology approaches to better understand and gain experience applying models; engaging a constellation of varied stakeholders; fostering a culture of continuous formation and discernment within and across incorporeal cyberspaces; overseeing and facilitating best practices and behaviors; and appropriately responding to cyber trends and cyber trajectories.

The only instructor on record

6 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Julia Whitcavitch-DevoyExperience, Reflection, Action: Lynch	776 records	25th	27th

There is no ranking to read here: Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy is the only instructor with evaluation records for ERAL 4101, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ERAL 1100First-Year Seminar	165 records	61
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
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 1100First-Year Seminar	165 records	61
ERAL 1112First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action	165 records	64
ERAL 4000First Year Experience, Reflection, and Action	510 records	89
ERAL 3300ERA Undergraduate Teaching Interns and Peer Mentors	14 records	84

The line

All 13 items · means across 6 records

The Professor4 items

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

8513th pctl

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

847th pctl

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

8824th pctl

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

9022nd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9357th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8724th pctl

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

8822nd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8939th pctl

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

8833rd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9250th 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.

8627th pctl

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

8011th 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

6 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy	Summer 2025	01	90	80	—
Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy	Summer 2024	02	80	80	—
Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy	Summer 2023	01	60	80	—
Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy	Summer 2023	02	80	60	—
Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy	Summer 2022	01	—	—	—
Julia Whitcavitch-Devoy	Summer 2022	02	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.