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POLI 7706

The American Founding · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

76BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2023

—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

36thMore challenging than 36% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

88BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record · 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

—BC — “Workload”1 record — does not contribute

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The subject of this seminar is the founding of the United States, but the seminar's focus is political thought, not constitutional development as such. The revolutionary and constitutional debates displayed a notable sensitivity to, and interest in, questions of a philosophical nature. We will explore these ideas by beginning at the beginning, with the early colonies and the political debates their governments inspired, taking as our cue Tocqueville's claim that it was the Puritans who founded America. We will then examine the debates around the Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and the Federalist/Anti-Federalist debates which the Constitution inspired.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Dennis HaleProfessor · Political Science Provisional	761 record	—	36th	869 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Dennis Hale is the only instructor with evaluation records for POLI 7706, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, 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 Dennis Hale

3 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 1041Fundamental Concepts of Politics	1037 records	76
POLI 1042Introduction to Modern Politics	519 records	83
POLI 2341American Political Thought I	12 records	82

Other POLI classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 1021How to Rule the World: Introduction to Political Theory	645 records	82
POLI 1041Fundamental Concepts of Politics	1037 records	76
POLI 2360Seminar: Rights in Conflict	923 records	84
POLI 1042Introduction to Modern Politics	519 records	83
POLI 2665The Question of Justice	919 records	80
POLI 2440A Continent on the Move: Immigration in Contemporary Europe	110 records	86

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

The Professor4 items

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

8820th pctl

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

848th pctl

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

681st pctl

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

804th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8832nd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8415th pctl

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

8410th pctl

Assignments & Feedback2 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8415th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8010th pctl

Workload, difficulty & attendanceNot ratings

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8836th pctl

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

100100th 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. 2 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Dennis Hale	Spring 2023	01	76	76	—

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.