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FREN 4426

Women Writers in Pre-Modern Times: Around Christine de Pizan · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

76BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2024

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What the challenge rank is made of

36thMore challenging than 36% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

88BC — “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.

Conducted in French. Centered on the texts and the publishing activity of Christine de Pizan, a woman writer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this course will cover three different aspects of poetic production at that time: lyric poetry, didactic literature and manuscript production. Comparing Christine's prolific activity with that of her peers and sources, we will study works of poetry and music, representations of love and loss, allegories of politics and learning, as well as manuscripts and publishing practices. We will pay special attention to the specific ways in which women writers represent themselves as authors.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Ana Cristina Celestino MontenegroRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	841 record	25th	36th

There is no ranking to read here: Ana Cristina Celestino Montenegro is the only instructor with evaluation records for FREN 4426, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Ana Cristina Celestino Montenegro

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
FREN 3306Narrative and Identity: The Story You Tell Yourself	410 records	86
FREN 3303French Writing Workshop	13 records	85
FREN 4405Parsing the History of the French Language	12 records	81
FREN 4419Order and Subversion	11 record	84
FREN 4421Fight Like the French: Famous Quarrels and Polemics in French Culture	11 record	81
FREN 4422The Death of the Author	11 record	100

Other FREN classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
FREN 1110Intermediate French II	1858 records	79
FREN 1109Intermediate French I	1847 records	79
FREN 1010Elementary French II	1434 records	87
FREN 1009Elementary French I	1123 records	86
FREN 2210French Conversation, Composition, and Reading II	318 records	85
FREN 2209French Conversation, Composition, and Reading I	417 records	77

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.

9669th pctl

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

9240th pctl

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

9242nd pctl

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

9663rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8419th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

764th pctl

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

8410th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

808th pctl

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

9254th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8831st 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.

8836th pctl

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

100100th 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
Ana Cristina Celestino Montenegro	Spring 2024	01	84	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.