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PSYC 3338

From Madness to Psychopathology · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

90BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021

—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

92ndMore challenging than 92% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

98BC — “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

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “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.

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.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Marilee OgrenPsychology Provisional	861 record	78th	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 classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
PSYC 2234Introduction to Psychopathology	414 records	91
PSYC 3376Building Brains: Topics in Developmental Neuroscience	24 records	89

Other 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 record

The Professor4 items

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

9238th pctl

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

8511th pctl

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

8821st pctl

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

9128th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9359th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9785th pctl

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

9781st pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9362nd pctl

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

8835th 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.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9892nd pctl

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

9677th 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

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Marilee Ogren	Fall 2021	01	86	90	60

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.