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FORM 2810

Aesthetic Awakenings · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

95BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2025

—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

76thMore challenging than 76% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

95BC — “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

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.

I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. With these words, Henry David Thoreau evokes a crucial formative ideal. It is not enough to sleepwalk through life. To live fully, we must cultivate wide-awakeness, a stance of attentive responsiveness to reality. And yet our schools--like strange temples devoted to monotony, conformity, and conventionality--seem almost designed to sedate. John Dewey observed that much of what we call education is "anaesthetic" and therefore actually miseducation. In this course, we will take up Dewey's challenge to explore the transformative power of aesthetic experience--that which awakens and enlivens--including, but not limited to, engagements with the arts. Through aesthetic experiments, encounters with artworks, and discussion of writings on aesthetic education, we will explore questions such as: Why have the arts been relegated to the extracurricular margins of schooling? What would education look like if our aim was to release the imagination, to cultivate emotional depth and honesty, to acknowledge the beautiful, sublime, tragic, and absurd? How might we evolve if we learned to think through materials, reuniting head and hands? How might society change if education were dedicated to challenging received ideas, deepening attention, and nurturing wide-awakeness?

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Garo SaraydarianFormative Education Provisional	981 record	25th	76th	10011 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Garo Saraydarian is the only instructor with evaluation records for FORM 2810, 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 Garo Saraydarian

3 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
FORM 1050The Educational Conversation	1126 records	88
FORM 1051Reimagining School and Society	1023 records	88
FORM 4050The Art of Educational Inquiry	36 records	86

Other FORM classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
FORM 1050The Educational Conversation	1126 records	88
FORM 1051Reimagining School and Society	1023 records	88
FORM 4050The Art of Educational Inquiry	36 records	86
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.

9884th pctl

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

9885th pctl

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

9884th pctl

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

9880th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9889th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9681st pctl

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

9887th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9362nd pctl

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

9679th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9679th 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.

9576th pctl

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

9678th 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
Garo Saraydarian	Fall 2025	01	98	95	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.