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MUSA 2334

Hip Hop in American Culture · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

62BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 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

72BC — “Intellectually Challenging”4 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”4 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.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Timothy ManginMusic	624 records	25th	1st

There is no ranking to read here: Timothy Mangin is the only instructor with evaluation records for MUSA 2334, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Timothy Mangin

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
MUSA 1300History of Popular Music	529 records	79
MUSP 1670Waaw Waaw Sabar: BC West African Music Ensemble	214 records	95
MUSA 2330History of Jazz	24 records	68
MUSA 2306Musics of Africa	13 records	69

Other MUSA classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
MUSA 1100Fundamentals of Music Theory	1087 records	82
MUSA 1200Introduction to Music	1163 records	80
MUSA 2100Harmony	536 records	87
MUSA 3100Chromatic Harmony	432 records	72
MUSA 1300History of Popular Music	529 records	79
MUSA 1320Introduction to Musics of the World	529 records	73

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

The Professor4 items

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

670th pctl

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

710th pctl

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

691st pctl

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

836th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

530th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

610th pctl

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

721st pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

691st pctl

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

601st pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

681st 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.

721st pctl

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

765th 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

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Timothy Mangin	Spring 2025	01	38	38	40
Timothy Mangin	Spring 2024	01	68	69	40
Timothy Mangin	Fall 2022	01	65	65	40
Timothy Mangin	Fall 2021	01	77	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.