PRTO 3300
Senior Seminar in Business Ethics · 6 instructors on record · 15 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.
The purpose of this course is to provide Portico Teaching Assistants a greater depth of understanding of the philosophical issues covered in Portico, and to offer an introduction to the core pedagogical techniques involved in teaching applied ethics. Participating TAs will study the course material on a second-order level by considering the evolution of their understanding of the course material over their undergraduate career, and by exploring pedagogical best-practices to improve teaching outcomes. The structure of the course will thus run concurrently with that of Portico. While primarily directed towards enriching the experience of the TAs, the course will simultaneously aim to facilitate the goals of Portico itself by providing TAs with additional tools and resources for engaging with their students and creating a more cohesive and impactful classroom community.
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 | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amy La CombeUndergrad Management Honors/Ethics | 1003 records | 2nd | 69th | —no page |
| 2 | Joseph CioniAssociate Professor of the Practice · Business Law and Society | 1003 records | 2nd | 89th | 9629 ratings · all classes |
| 3 | Christine RojcewiczAssistant Professor of the Practice · Business Law and Society | 993 records | 2nd | 71st | 488 ratings · all classes |
| 4 | Jeremy EvansAssociate Professor of the Practice · Business Law and Society Provisional | 992 records | 0th | 55th | 10010 ratings · all classes |
| 5 | Michael SmithAssociate Professor of the Practice · Undergrad Management Honors/Ethics | 993 records | 0th | 55th | 9630 ratings · all classes |
| 6 | Stephen MendelsohnAssistant Professor of the Practice · Business Law and Society Provisional | 981 record | 0th | 40th | 804 ratings · all classes |
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. 2 of 6 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach; that site has no course dimension, so it is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.
The line
All 13 items · means across 15 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
15 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Smith | Fall 2025 | 01 | 100 | 98 | 20 |
| Christine Rojcewicz | Fall 2025 | 02 | 100 | 100 | 40 |
| Joseph Cioni | Fall 2025 | 03 | 100 | 100 | 40 |
| Stephen Mendelsohn | Fall 2025 | 04 | 98 | 93 | 20 |
| Amy La Combe | Fall 2025 | 05 | 100 | 100 | 40 |
| Michael Smith | Fall 2023 | 01 | 98 | 96 | — |
| Christine Rojcewicz | Fall 2023 | 02 | 100 | 100 | — |
| Joseph Cioni | Fall 2023 | 03 | 100 | 98 | — |
| Jeremy Evans | Fall 2023 | 04 | 98 | 100 | — |
| Amy La Combe | Fall 2023 | 05 | 100 | 94 | — |
| Michael Smith | Fall 2022 | 01 | 98 | 97 | 20 |
| Christine Rojcewicz | Fall 2022 | 02 | 98 | 93 | 20 |
| Joseph Cioni | Fall 2022 | 03 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
| Jeremy Evans | Fall 2022 | 04 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
| Amy La Combe | Fall 2022 | 05 | 100 | 100 | 20 |
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.