JOUR 2000
Introduction to Journalism · 6 instructors on record · 19 sections
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.
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 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.
Senior Journalism minors only - required Journalism course. To be taken in Freshman, Sophomore, or Junior year.Organized like a professional newsroom, this course will give students interested in journalism a taste of its various facets, including topic-generation, reporting, interviewing, and editing, for print, broadcast, and online media. It will cover basic newswriting, beat reporting, investigative journalism, feature writing, and writing for the web, and provide an introduction to media law and ethics and the business and history of journalism. Students will produce a feature-length final project and will also work in teams to formulate, report, and write investigative stories.Student should expect to meet deadlines and high standards of grammar, style, punctuation, and factual accuracy.
Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 2 of the 6 rows carry a mark saying so.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kevin ConveyUniversity and Capstone | 906 records | 40th | 25th |
| 2 | Jennifer BerkshireUniversity and Capstone Provisional fewer records | 941 record | 25th | 36th |
| 3 | Scott HelmanUniversity and Capstone Provisional fewer records | 861 record | 78th | 26th |
| 4 | Jon MarcusUniversity and Capstone | 878 records | 25th | 40th |
| 5 | Christine CaswellCommunication Provisional | 851 record | — | — |
| 6 | Angela ArdsAssociate Professor; Director of the Journalism Program · English Provisional | 832 records | 39th | 11th |
How this board is orderedPositions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.
Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse. 4 of 6 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row.
The line
All 13 items · means across 19 recordsBar 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
19 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jon Marcus | Spring 2026 | 01 | 90 | 88 | 40 |
| Kevin Convey | Spring 2026 | 02 | 96 | 91 | 40 |
| Jon Marcus | Fall 2025 | 01 | 90 | 87 | 40 |
| Scott Helman | Fall 2025 | 02 | 86 | 82 | 60 |
| Jon Marcus | Spring 2025 | 01 | 96 | 94 | 40 |
| Kevin Convey | Spring 2025 | 02 | 93 | 91 | 60 |
| Kevin Convey | Fall 2024 | 01 | 88 | 83 | 60 |
| Angela Ards | Fall 2024 | 02 | 82 | 75 | 40 |
| Jon Marcus | Spring 2024 | 01 | 82 | 82 | 40 |
| Kevin Convey | Spring 2024 | 02 | 96 | 92 | 60 |
| Jon Marcus | Fall 2023 | 01 | 91 | 86 | — |
| Christine Caswell | Fall 2023 | 02 | 85 | 89 | — |
| Jon Marcus | Spring 2023 | 01 | 85 | 85 | 40 |
| Kevin Convey | Spring 2023 | 02 | 87 | 82 | — |
| Jon Marcus | Fall 2022 | 01 | 84 | 80 | 40 |
| Angela Ards | Fall 2022 | 02 | 84 | 87 | 60 |
| Jon Marcus | Spring 2022 | 01 | 81 | 83 | 40 |
| Jennifer Berkshire | Spring 2022 | 02 | 94 | 88 | 40 |
| Kevin Convey | Fall 2021 | 01 | 83 | 83 | 40 |
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.