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HIST 1630

The Meaning of Boston: History and Memory · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2022 – Fall 2023

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—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

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What the challenge rank is made of

84thMore challenging than 84% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

96BC — “Intellectually Challenging”4 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

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

60BC — “Workload”4 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 is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ENGL1735 and HIST1630. How does a city -- this city in which we find ourselves -- create meaning? Meaning flows through a city just as populations, capital, power, resources, and ideas do, and each of these flows conditions the others. In this course, we will consider what Boston has meant in different moments and to different people as we think about the forms of literary texts, how they express meaning, and their relationships to the historical moments in which they took shape and/or seek to capture. We will also consider the local in relation to national and international events and artistic movements. Throughout the semester, our discussions will move beyond the received meanings and standard tropes of Boston -- the accent, the city on a hill, the regular-guy mythos retailed by Hollywood -- to explore questions that Boston has consistently raised about human beings and nature, race and class difference, the form and function of the good life, the double-edged quality of moral causes, and the contest between the persistence of old ways and the succession of new ones.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
David QuigleyProfessor, Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Provost and Dean of Faculties · History	904 records	78th	84th	1004 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: David Quigley is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 1630, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by David Quigley

2 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 1704The Worlds of Moby-Dick: What Historical Forces Shape a Book's "Greatness"?	11 record	93
UNCP 4615Mapping and Our Search for Meaning: A Capstone Seminar	11 record	80

Other HIST classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 1001Europe in the World 1	2077 records	72
HIST 1002Europe in the World II	1541 records	75
HIST 1113The African Diaspora and the World I	1239 records	76
HIST 1012Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy	1134 records	75
HIST 1093Modern History I	930 records	79
HIST 1094Modern History II	824 records	81

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

The Professor4 items

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

9343rd pctl

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

9131st pctl

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

9348th pctl

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

9666th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9679th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9469th pctl

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

9242nd 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.

9149th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9044th 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.

9684th pctl

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

9781st 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

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
David Quigley	Fall 2023	01	94	86	—
David Quigley	Fall 2023	02	88	91	—
David Quigley	Fall 2022	01	88	86	60
David Quigley	Fall 2022	02	91	89	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.