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HIST 1841

Core Topics: When Worlds Collide: From Contact to the Constitution · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

80BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – 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

26thMore challenging than 26% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

86BC — “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 course will examine North American history from the perspective of the collision and exchange of cultures and peoples. From the Mississippian Indian civilization at Cahokia to the Illinois, Iroquois, Algonkian, and other Native American peoples, we will see how Indians resisted, adapted, and interacted with French, English, Spanish, and Dutch Europeans. African peoples were another key part of this cultural collision, as hundreds of thousands were brought to North America in the slave trade. The course ends with the consolidation of white European power in the creation of the United States. Major themes in the course are race, power, and religion.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Cynthia LyerlyHistory	884 records	78th	26th	869 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Cynthia Lyerly is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 1841, 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 Cynthia Lyerly

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 4551American Hate	14 records	95
HIST 7804Colloquium: American Slavery	12 records	98
HIST 3434The Study and Writing of History: Union in Crisis: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War	11 record	82
HIST 3435Study and Writing of History: Slavery and Memory: The WPA Narratives and Antebellum Slavery	11 record	94
HIST 3437Study and Writing: Murder, You Wrote: Sensational Homicides 19C	11 record	91
HIST 4418American Slavery	11 record	87

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.

9135th pctl

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

9559th pctl

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

9135th pctl

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

9235th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8730th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8829th 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.

8518th pctl

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

768th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8213th 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.

8626th pctl

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

9780th 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
Cynthia Lyerly	Fall 2025	01	86	82	60
Cynthia Lyerly	Fall 2024	01	87	79	60
Cynthia Lyerly	Fall 2023	01	92	84	—
Cynthia Lyerly	Fall 2021	01	87	73	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.