HIST 7311
Colloquium: Law and History · 1 instructor on record · 1 section
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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.
Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.
This class will examine the relationship between law and history in two respects. First, we will examine related but distinct ways that law and history approach the reconstruction of past events using partial and conflicting evidence. Think of this as asking what judges and historians share and what separates them. Second, we will evaluate the history of law. How has law been treated as a topic of historical inquiry? What counts as law? Should it be studied on its own terms or contextually? Who matters? Legislators? Lawyers? Judges? Lay actors? To address these issues we will read broadly in the legal history of various context, Europe, the US, and the non-western world.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devin PendasProfessor, Professor of Law (by courtesy) · History Provisional | 901 record | — | 100th | 7813 ratings · all classes |
There is no ranking to read here: Devin Pendas is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 7311, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.
Also taught by Devin Pendas
6 other classes| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| UNCS 2245First-Year Topic Seminar | 32107 records | 89 |
| HIST 1002Europe in the World II | 1541 records | 75 |
| INTL 2200Where on Earth: Foundations in Global History | 611 records | 73 |
| HIST 8000Colloquium: Introduction to Doctoral Studies | 35 records | 91 |
| HIST 7202Graduate Colloquium: Modern European History | 34 records | 85 |
| HIST 4250Human Rights as History | 13 records | 89 |
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 |
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All 13 items · means across 1 recordBar 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. 3 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.
Game log
1 section · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devin Pendas | Spring 2022 | 01 | 90 | 90 | — |
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.