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POLI 7908

Adam Smith · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

100BC 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

100thMore challenging than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “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

100thMore work than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “Workload”1 record · 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.

Undergraduates allowed by permission of the instructor. An intensive survey of the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith. Primary focus on his two published texts, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations, with some additional consideration of the roles played in his larger system his lectures on rhetoric and jurisprudence and his essays on scientific inquiry. Specific concepts to be examined will include the key concepts of Smith's moral theory (esp. his concepts of sympathy, spectatorship, virtue, perfection and corruption), the key concepts of his political theory (esp. his concepts of authority, law, and the state and its responsibilities), and the key concepts of his economic thought (esp. the benefits and effects of the division of labor, free trade, and economic planning).

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Ryan HanleyPolitical Science Provisional	1001 record	100th	100th	965 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Ryan Hanley is the only instructor with evaluation records for POLI 7908, 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 Ryan Hanley

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 2603Enlightenment Political Theory	13 records	85
POLI 1034Making the Modern Mind: Morality	12 records	84
POLI 2621Politics and Literature	11 record	94
POLI 2623Political Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition	11 record	90
POLI 36111776 and Political Philosophy	11 record	87
POLI 7921Pascal	11 record	100

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.

100100th pctl

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

9562nd pctl

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

100100th pctl

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

100100th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

100100th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

100100th pctl

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

9569th pctl

Assignments & Feedback2 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9578th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9571st 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.

100100th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

100100th pctl

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

9571st 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. 1 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
Ryan Hanley	Spring 2023	01	100	100	100

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.