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HIST 5009

Senior Colloquium: The Question of Palestine · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

97BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2024

—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

100thMore challenging than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “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

100thMore work than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “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.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Dana SajdiAssociate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies · History Provisional	941 record	100th	100th

There is no ranking to read here: Dana Sajdi is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 5009, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Dana Sajdi

5 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 8000Colloquium: Introduction to Doctoral Studies	35 records	91
ICSP 7101Readings and Research--Grad	55 records	—
HIST 1806Podcasting the Ottomans	13 records	82
HIST 4122Odysseys in the Western and Islamic Traditions	22 records	100
HIST 3120Study and Writing: The Arabian Nights from Baghdad to Hollywood	11 record	90

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.

100100th pctl

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

9455th pctl

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

100100th pctl

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

100100th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

100100th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9786th pctl

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

100100th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

100100th pctl

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

9151st pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9149th 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.

100100th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

100100th pctl

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

100100th 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
Dana Sajdi	Fall 2024	01	94	97	100

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.