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HIST 2481

African American History I · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

75BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2024

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

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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

9thMore challenging than 9% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

81BC — “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.

Fulfills the U.S. History requirement for History Majors. This course introduces undergraduates to African American history from the Middle Passage to the Civil War. Lectures, readings, and class discussions will call on students to analyze central topics in the field, including the meanings of African ancestry, shifting identifications, and the creation of a people; the intertwining of slavery and freedom in the colonial period; everyday life in the early republic; continuities and discontinuities in battles for freedom; and political organizing and resistance. Through a consideration of intellectual, labor, political, and social histories, the course invites students to examine and reinterpret narratives of black history "from slavery to freedom."

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Mycah ConnerAssistant Professor · History Provisional	771 record	25th	9th

There is no ranking to read here: Mycah Conner is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 2481, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Mycah Conner

5 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 4416Slavery and Emancipation in the U.S.	12 records	92
HIST 8220Graduate Seminar: U.S. Before 1900	22 records	91
HIST 3438Study and Writing of History: Black American Lives in the 19th Century: Narratives, Letters, & Testi	11 record	100
HIST 4415U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction	11 record	91
HIST 5407Senior Colloquium: Reading Reconstruction	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 1 record

The Professor4 items

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

8410th pctl

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

9028th pctl

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

8719th pctl

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

9025th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8315th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8312th pctl

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

838th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8519th pctl

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

8419th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9043rd 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.

819th pctl

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

8625th 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
Mycah Conner	Fall 2024	01	77	75	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.