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ITAL 8855

Italian Authorial Cinema · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

92BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2023 – 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

42ndMore challenging than 42% 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

85thMore work than 85% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

70BC — “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.

Conducted in Italian. This course will offer graduate students the opportunity to explore directors, films, and movements of Italian cinema from Postwar to the New Millennium. A central focus will be the definition of authorship in the study of Italian cinema. From Neorealism to Comedy "Italian Style," from the art films of the 1960s to contemporary experimentation, Italian directors have shaped the Italian cinematic universe and consolidated its relevance worldwide. The ultimate goal is to provide graduate students with the critical tools to analyze cinema and acquire methods for both teaching and writing on this subject.

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	962 records	85th	42nd

There is no ranking to read here: Mattia Acetoso is the only instructor with evaluation records for ITAL 8855, 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 5583Murder, They Wrote: Italian Detective Fiction	12 records	97
ITAL 8825Italian Novel of the Novecento	12 records	93

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.

9669th pctl

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

9670th pctl

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

9670th pctl

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

100100th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9464th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9250th pctl

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

9457th 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.

8013th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9462nd 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.

7085th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8942nd 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 2024	01	92	88	80
Mattia Acetoso	Spring 2023	01	100	95	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.