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ITAL 5583

Murder, They Wrote: Italian Detective Fiction · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

97BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023 – 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

40thMore challenging than 40% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

89BC — “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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “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.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Mattia AcetosoAssociate Professor of Italian · Romance Languages and Literatures Provisional	992 records	25th	40th

There is no ranking to read here: Mattia Acetoso is the only instructor with evaluation records for ITAL 5583, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Mattia Acetoso

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ITAL 2214Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading II	25 records	90
RLRL 9990Graduate and Professional Seminar	15 records	83
ITAL 2213Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading I	23 records	95
ITAL 5571Intro to Italian Cinema	12 records	90
ITAL 8825Italian Novel of the Novecento	12 records	93
ITAL 8855Italian Authorial Cinema	12 records	92

Other ITAL classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
ITAL 1004Elementary Italian II	1133 records	84
ITAL 1114Intermediate Italian II	1029 records	83
ITAL 1003Elementary Italian I	922 records	85
ITAL 1113Intermediate Italian I	1019 records	80
ITAL 1021Elementary Italian Practicum I	210 records	81
ITAL 1022Elementary Italian Practicum II	210 records	83

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.

9882nd pctl

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

9881st 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.

9878th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9676th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9677th pctl

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

9139th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9681st pctl

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

9675th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9674th 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.

8940th pctl

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

9674th 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
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2025	01	98	93	40
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2023	01	100	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.