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FORM 2500

Introduction to the Psychological Humanities · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

91BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2024

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

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

55thMore challenging than 55% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

91BC — “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

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “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.

Psychology is a modern discipline with a unique history which has served particular societal and political purposes. These purposes have frequently had adverse effects on the discipline's developmental trajectory, contributing to a narrowing of its epistemological and methodological commitments. Contemporary psychology suffers the ongoing effects of the narrowing, oftern deploying methods (e.g., natural scientific paradigms) that are ill-suited to its subject-human persons. The emerging field of psychological humanities seeks to restore to psychology a more pluralistic means of understanding of humanity- methodologically and theoretically. This is being accomplished through a revitalization of the connection between social scientific exploration with the scholarship and ideas associated with the humanitites. In this course, students will be exposed to a survey of topics, issues, and traditions associated with the converstaions currently taking place in the psychological humanities. These include phenomenology, critical psychology, indigenous psychologies, existentialism, literary critique, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, global psychology, and social constructionism, all deployed to enlarge psychology's capacity to dialogue across ideas and methods for the purpose of asking the question of what it means to be human.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
David GoodmanCounseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology Provisional	931 record	78th	55th	902 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: David Goodman is the only instructor with evaluation records for FORM 2500, 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 David Goodman

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ADEX 1150The Examined Life	627 records	86
APSY 2241Mental Illness: Social and Clinical Perspectives	820 records	92
APSY 2240Personality Theories: Behavior in Context	312 records	89
APSY 8742Advanced Clinical Case Consultation in Counseling Psychology	46 records	93
APSY 9848Advanced Clinical Case Consultation	25 records	93
ADPS 2243Personality Theories	22 records	91

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All of them

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FORM 8800Colloquium in Formative Education	26 records	77
FORM 2050Transformative Teaching and Learning	24 records	97
FORM 6150Tech Tools for Playful Learning	14 records	93

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.

9882nd pctl

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

9666th pctl

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

9882nd pctl

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

9878th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9888th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9889th pctl

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

9672nd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9367th pctl

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

9886th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9886th 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.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9155th pctl

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

9674th 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
David Goodman	Fall 2024	01	93	91	60

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.