MLSC 6050
Intersection of Cybersecurity Law, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Privacy · 3 instructors on record · 9 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.
This course provides a comprehensive examination of the varying Federal and State laws, regulations, and Executive Orders concerning cybersecurity, AI and data privacy, including PCI, HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, FISMA, NIST, FISA, CFAA, CCPA, NYDFS, and their overseas counterparts (e.g., the EU GDPR, EU AI Act, China PIPL), and the roles of Federal, State, and local regulators and law enforcement officials. The course also examines cyber and national security and data privacy issues governed by various Federal agencies (e.g., SEC, FTC, FCC, DOD, DOJ, DHS, NSA, Treasury), including suspicious activity reporting (SAR) requirements under the Patriot Act. Additionally, the course addresses the varying frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF) and guidance for intellectual property protection, security classifications, information sharing, incident planning and response, Board governance, data location requirements, audits, compliancy and risk assessments, and individual, class-action, and shareholder derivative litigation and liability. Upon completion of this course, Students will be able to provide senior executives and Boards of Directors sound, practical guidance, in "plain language," concerning the varying cybersecurity and data privacy matters identified, analyzed, and discussed throughout the course.
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.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kevin PowersAdvancing Studies | 983 records | 78th | 64th |
| 2 | Katherine FickAdvancing Studies | 943 records | 78th | 64th |
| 3 | Henry DigiacomoAdvancing Studies | 873 records | 78th | 64th |
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.
The line
All 13 items · means across 9 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
9 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Digiacomo | Spring 2026 | 01 | 94 | 94 | 60 |
| Katherine Fick | Spring 2026 | 01 | 98 | 94 | 60 |
| Kevin Powers | Spring 2026 | 01 | 99 | 94 | 60 |
| Henry Digiacomo | Spring 2026 | 02 | — | — | — |
| Katherine Fick | Spring 2026 | 02 | — | — | — |
| Kevin Powers | Spring 2026 | 02 | — | — | — |
| Henry Digiacomo | Fall 2025 | 01 | 81 | 92 | 60 |
| Katherine Fick | Fall 2025 | 01 | 90 | 92 | 60 |
| Kevin Powers | Fall 2025 | 01 | 97 | 92 | 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.