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LAWS 7650

Legislative and Public Policy Advocacy · 1 instructor on record · 3 sections

What the course score is made of

80BC evaluations3 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2024 – Spring 2026

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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

17thMore challenging than 17% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “Intellectually Challenging”3 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”3 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.

This course covers several matters pertaining to legislative and public policy ideas that are developed and designed to address a range of societal issues and the advocacy work that is required in seeking to have these ideas actually become law whether as a legislative act or as an adopted policy within an executive branch agency. The course seeks to familiarize students with the life cycle of a legislative act or adopted public policy. The life cycles can progress from the stage of idea generation to vetting the idea to building support for the proposed legislative act or public policy to drafting a proposed legislative bill or agency public policy to navigating the bill or public policy through various official channels whether in a legislature or in anexecutive agency and can continue through to certain post-adoption matters such as those designed to maximize the effectiveness of the act or policy. The course will have a diverse set of guest speakers who work on legislative and public policy matters in a number of different capacities, including speakers from advocacy groups and organizations that develop model legislation, lobbyists, legislators and those who work in executive agencies.

The only instructor on record

3 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Thomas MitchellLaw	793 records	25th	17th

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Mitchell is the only instructor with evaluation records for LAWS 7650, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Thomas Mitchell

3 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
LAWS 2140Property	616 records	79
LAWS 6679Trusts and Estates	310 records	87
LAWS 4210Real Estate and Community Development Concentration Seminar	22 records	60

Other LAWS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
LAWS 2110Critical Perspectives: Law, Context, and Professional Identity	3080 records	66
LAWS 8667Legal Practice Externship	251 records	91
LAWS 2150Law Practice 1	1032 records	84
LAWS 2155Law Practice II	1032 records	83
LAWS 8130Advanced Legal Research	829 records	92
LAWS 2190Professional Responsibility	926 records	74

The line

All 13 items · means across 3 records

The Professor4 items

Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.

9133rd pctl

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

826th pctl

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

9033rd pctl

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

9446th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

745th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

797th pctl

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

9779th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

808th pctl

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

725th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

787th 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.

8417th pctl

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

8936th 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

3 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Thomas Mitchell	Spring 2026	01	80	80	40
Thomas Mitchell	Fall 2024	01	80	84	40
Thomas Mitchell	Spring 2024	01	78	77	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.