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PHCG 4050

The Law, Policy & Politics of Women's Health · 1 instructor on record · 3 sections

What the course score is made of

94BC evaluations3 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023 – 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

15thMore challenging than 15% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

83BC — “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.

Although the practice of public health has always been political, the role of politics and political actors have taken center stage in todays U.S. healthcare system. In recent years, few issues have attracted more controversy and political rancor than matters of womens health. Some issues may seem intractable due to conflicting but sincerely held beliefs rooted in religion, ethics and morality. Other matters are more clear-cut. For many women, this sweeping and intensifying political discord has compromised their health status, and curtailed their social and economic resources along with their legal rights.Relying on their complementary expertise in social work and law, Prof. Hawkins and Prof. Chirba will guide students in understanding the importance of interdisciplinary study when confronting problems of individual and public health, particularly when it comes to womens health. Thus, students will learn to understand the ways in which social, cultural, economic, political and legal forces impede the health status of women across the life course, and more specifically, hamper womens access to health care that is appropriate, adequate and affordable. Students will then use their interdisciplinary training to evaluate how to develop sound social and economic policies to mitigate gaps across the healthcare continuum, and how to use law to implement such measures to protect women regardless of age, race/ethnicity or socioeconomic status.

The only instructor on record

3 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Mary Ann ChirbaLaw	973 records	25th	15th	766 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Mary Ann Chirba is the only instructor with evaluation records for PHCG 4050, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Mary Ann Chirba

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
LAWS 2150Law Practice 1	1032 records	84
LAWS 2155Law Practice II	1032 records	83
UNAS 1702Life Liberty & Health: The Economics Policy and Law of Healthcare	224 records	78
PHCG 2130Global Public Health Law	210 records	69
ECON 1702Life, Liberty & Heath: The Economics, Policy and Law of Healthcare	26 records	83
LAWS 7654Federal Health Law, Policy, and Politics	14 records	79

Other PHCG classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
PHCG 1210Public Health in a Global Society	1021 records	85
PHCG 2130Global Public Health Law	210 records	69
PHCG 2120Introduction to Epidemiology	29 records	91
PHCG 3210Contemporary Issues in Public Health	15 records	91
PHCG 3560Biostatistics, Data Analytics and Quantitative Methods in Public Health	15 records	94
PHCG 4140Children's Health and the Environment	15 records	92

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.

9883rd pctl

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

9349th pctl

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

9988th pctl

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

9986th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

777th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8520th pctl

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

9783rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9364th pctl

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

8113th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8829th 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.

8315th pctl

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

8934th 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
Mary Ann Chirba	Fall 2025	01	96	91	40
Mary Ann Chirba	Fall 2024	01	98	96	—
Mary Ann Chirba	Fall 2023	01	98	94	—

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.