JOUR 2235
Writing about Sports · 1 instructor on record · 8 sections
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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 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.
Note to Journalism minors: this course satisfies the requirement for an elective with a craft" orientation." Sports writing has long been the home of some of the best writing in journalism, and it's easy to see why: In sporting events, we have drama and conflict, compelling characters and settings, winners and losers, and sometimes even good and evil. And what's more, the stakes are high enough to grip our attention but not -- in spite of how it might sometimes seem -- a life-or-death matter. In this class, we will take sports as a lens for honing our writing skills, using clear and engaging writing to tell stories that not just sports fans want to read. Guest speakers from the industry will visit to discuss their careers and their craft. The class will also include discussions relevant to journalists, from media contraction to clickbait. You will learn what makes a good story and how to construct one, with the goal of becoming proficient in sports writing, from story idea to final draft.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy GolenUniversity and Capstone | 788 records | 33rd | 31st |
There is no ranking to read here: Jimmy Golen is the only instructor with evaluation records for JOUR 2235, so the number is a record, not a position.
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All 13 items · means across 8 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
8 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Golen | Fall 2025 | 01 | 83 | 89 | 40 |
| Jimmy Golen | Spring 2025 | 01 | 90 | 93 | 40 |
| Jimmy Golen | Spring 2024 | 01 | 89 | 80 | 40 |
| Jimmy Golen | Fall 2023 | 01 | 63 | 70 | — |
| Jimmy Golen | Spring 2023 | 01 | 63 | 63 | — |
| Jimmy Golen | Fall 2022 | 01 | 73 | 73 | 60 |
| Jimmy Golen | Spring 2022 | 01 | 86 | 83 | — |
| Jimmy Golen | Fall 2021 | 01 | 74 | 77 | 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.