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HIST 2401

U.S. History I · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

83BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2022 – 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

43rdMore challenging than 43% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

90BC — “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

81stMore work than 81% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

67BC — “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.

Fulfills the US History requirement for Majors.Followed in spring semester by HIST2402.This course is an introduction to United States History from the pre-Columbian Era to the end of the Civil War. The principal text will be the first volume of the textbook edition of Jill Lepore'sWe Hold These Truths. After considering the Indigenous settlement of North America, we will proceed through the era of European encounter with and settlement of the continent. Particular attention will be paid to the rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the emergence of American slaveholding, settler treatment of the Indigenous, and the consequences of the rivalries among European colonizing powers. Study of the English settlers struggle to obtain their rights within the British Empire will lead us into the American Revolution, the writing and implementation of the Constitution, and the struggles of the early American Republic to define itself, struggles which finally led to the fragmentation of the Union followed by its reunification by force of arms in1865.This course is particularly suitable for students associated with the Lynch School of Education, but all are welcome.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Thomas MurphyHistory	904 records	81st	43rd	864 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Murphy is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 2401, 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 Thomas Murphy

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
TMRE 7060Education in Living Faith: Foundations and Practice	38 records	90
HIST 2402U.S. History II	14 records	90
HIST 2804Irish America	13 records	85
HIST 2817The U.S. Presidency	13 records	89
HIST 2509Catholics and Social Justice	12 records	83
HIST 2512The Jesuits: A Secret History	22 records	81

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.

9132nd pctl

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

9672nd pctl

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

9136th pctl

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

9233rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9039th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8726th pctl

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

8718th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8936th pctl

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

8832nd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9467th 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.

6781st pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9043rd pctl

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

8419th 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
Thomas Murphy	Fall 2025	01	92	86	60
Thomas Murphy	Fall 2024	01	90	85	80
Thomas Murphy	Fall 2023	01	93	90	—
Thomas Murphy	Fall 2022	01	84	70	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.