Class record · ITAL · MCAS

ITAL 8815

Language and Power in Early Modern Italy (1300-1600) · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built

83Teaching92 raw · 72nd percentile of BC classes

±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score

83Curve scorethe teaching curve — nothing added or taken off

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so easiness could not be worked out. That is missing data, not a heavy class — and it takes nothing off the score.

What the course score is made of

92BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of

—BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not an easy class.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of

—BC — “Workload”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not a light class.

How is this worked out?

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.

Conducted in Italian.Political power in pre-modern Italy, as elsewhere, was gained, increased, and maintained not through military and economic might alone. Languages - in all its forms - played a significant role as well in acquiring and consolidating the loyalty of the masses, as we shall explore in this course, focusing on the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. We will examine the key, recurrent themes of public discourse, such as appeals to territorial pride, destiny, virility, rebirth, and self-sacrifice, as communicated through a wide variety of means of civic expression, including political oratory, social ritual, the fine arts and works of literature.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
Maria Sole CostanzoRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional	99100 raw · 1 record	—	—	1001 rating · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Maria Sole Costanzo is the only instructor with evaluation records for ITAL 8815, 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 Maria Sole Costanzo

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ITAL 2214Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading II	25 records	90
ITAL 2213Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading I	23 records	95
ITAL 5526Dante's "Divine Comedy" in Translation	23 records	89
ITAL 8813Dante's "Divina Commedia"	12 records	92
ITAL 8835Leon Battista Alberti and the Languages of the Italian Renaissance	12 records	91
ITAL 5520Life in Renaissance Italy	11 record	96

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 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Maria Sole Costanzo	Fall 2023	01	100	92	—

How to read this board

Instructors 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.