PSYC 3338
From Madness to Psychopathology · 1 instructor on record · 1 section
Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 22% of BC classes.
The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.
How is this worked out?
That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.
How is this worked out?
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.
One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.
How is this worked out?
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.
Mental illness and mental health, as diagnoses and as experiences, have not remained constant over time. Those who displayed unusual behaviors were once denounced as witches or locked up in asylums; now they are more likely to be considered differently neurologically wired or offered drugs or psychotherapy. Not only has the stigma attached to mental illness changed but the very categories themselves, the labels, and the behaviors associated with them, have come into existence or disappeared over time: hysteria is no more, while PTSD and anorexia nervosa are relatively recent arrivals. This course will examine the making and unmaking of categories and concepts of mental illness, from the 19th century era of asylums, through deinstitutionalization and the normalization of psychotherapy, to the growth of psychopharmacology, to what some call our current therapeutic culture, its wholesale embrace of mental health, and the reinvention of psychology as a health profession, to the exporting of US psychiatric disease categories abroad. The course will analyze these significant scientific and medical as well as cultural and political shifts in three arenas: in changing approaches to diagnosis and treatment in psychology and psychiatry (for example, from psychoanalysis to CBT); in peoples lived experiences of mental illness, in memoir; and in images and portrayals of madness in fiction and film.
| Instructor | Curve | Easiness | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marilee OgrenPsychology Provisional | 7386 raw · 1 record | 68−2 to the score | 92nd | 685 ratings · all classes |
There is no ranking to read here: Marilee Ogren is the only instructor with evaluation records for PSYC 3338, 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 Marilee Ogren
2 other classesOther PSYC classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| PSYC 1120Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research I | 646 records | 68 |
| PSYC 1110Brain, Mind, & Behavior | 628 records | 76 |
| PSYC 1111Self, Mind, & Society | 628 records | 83 |
| PSYC 2234Introduction to Psychopathology | 414 records | 91 |
| PSYC 2260Child Developmental Psychology | 613 records | 77 |
| PSYC 2285Behavioral Neuroscience | 313 records | 86 |
The line
All 13 items · means across 1 recordBars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.
What each item asks
- Explains Clearly
- The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
- Available
- The instructor was available for help outside of class.
- Motivating
- The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
- Sparks Interest
- The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
- Organized
- The course was well organized.
- Clear Goals
- The learning objectives for the course were clear.
- Useful Later
- What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
- Assignments
- Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
- Fast Feedback
- I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
- Useful Feedback
- The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
- Workload
- How 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.
- Challenge
- The course was intellectually challenging.
- Attendance
- Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.
Why these numbers are curved
Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. 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
1 section · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marilee Ogren | Fall 2021 | 01 | 86 | 90 | 60 |
How to read this board
Instructors 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.