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MCSO 1301

Examining Self, Community, and Society · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

67BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2024 – Fall 2025

—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

1stMore challenging than 1% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

69BC — “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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “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.

Examining Self, Community, and Society offers a 6-week interdisciplinary seminar (sociology, social psychology, and readings in contemporary literature) that examines the self as a personal construction and situates this agentic self in local communities and society. At every level the course examines the balance between individual choice and the weight of a structured menu of choices, noting the challenge of constructing meaningful identity development and steering a course between possibilities, some of which are fruitful and some of which are harmful to both personal fulfillment and social justice. In this way, the class seeks to make the perennial questions about social justice into personal choices that can shape the students educational and community commitments.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Jessica BolinSociology Provisional	752 records	25th	1st	1001 rating · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Jessica Bolin is the only instructor with evaluation records for MCSO 1301, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, 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 Jessica Bolin

3 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology	2657 records	82
SOCY 2210Research Methods	723 records	79
ENVS 3355Sustainable Cities	27 records	87

Other MCSO classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
MCSO 1001Introductory Sociology	11 record	88
MCSO 1072Inequality in America	11 record	36

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.

838th pctl

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

815th pctl

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

8411th pctl

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

8611th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8419th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8110th pctl

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

8511th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

818th pctl

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

7910th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8316th 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.

691st pctl

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

798th 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
Jessica Bolin	Fall 2025	01	81	75	40
Jessica Bolin	Fall 2024	01	69	60	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.