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HIST 4282

The Northern Ireland Troubles Through Film and Media · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

94BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

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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

76thMore challenging than 76% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

95BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 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”2 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.

Formerly titled History of Northern Ireland, 1912 to the PresentThis course will explore the Troubles by using a variety of sources to gain a comprehensive understanding of the conflict. We will consider how historians, filmmakers, the broadcast media and creative writers have addressed the Troubles and consider key events that defined a deeply divided society. The course will address how the broadcast media helped undermine the Stormont Government and challenge British policy throughout the conflict. It will address key events including the campaign for civil rights campaign, the role of the Provisional IRA and Loyalist paramilitaries, the peace process which produced the landmark Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and the threat Brexit poses to the stability of Northern Ireland today.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Robert SavageHistory Provisional	972 records	78th	76th

There is no ranking to read here: Robert Savage is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 4282, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Robert Savage

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 1002Europe in the World II	1541 records	75
HIST 4961Honors Seminar	410 records	96
HIST 4281Film, Media, and Modern Ireland	13 records	92
HIST 4283Disunited Kingdom	12 records	92
HIST 5276Senior Colloquium: Remembering 1968	11 record	93
HIST 5510Making History Public: Propaganda and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles'	11 record	95

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 2 records

The Professor4 items

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

9886th pctl

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

9346th pctl

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

9882nd pctl

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

9984th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9887th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9784th pctl

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

9781st pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9891st pctl

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

9886th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9677th 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.

9576th 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

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Robert Savage	Fall 2025	01	96	95	60
Robert Savage	Fall 2021	01	97	93	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.