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RLRL 9990

Graduate and Professional Seminar · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

83BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

—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

17thMore challenging than 17% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 records · 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

1stMore work than 1% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

25BC — “Workload”5 records · 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.

The seminar presents a systematic introduction to the issues and topics of graduate student life and preparation for a successful career. Discussions will include professional ethics, strategies for conference participation, publication, the evolving role of theory, the roles of literature and language in the classroom, long-term career planning, and specific information on departmental requirements.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Mattia AcetosoAssociate Professor of Italian · Romance Languages and Literatures	925 records	1st	17th

There is no ranking to read here: Mattia Acetoso is the only instructor with evaluation records for RLRL 9990, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Mattia Acetoso

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ITAL 2214Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading II	25 records	90
ITAL 2213Italian Conversation, Composition, and Reading I	23 records	95
ITAL 5571Intro to Italian Cinema	12 records	90
ITAL 5583Murder, They Wrote: Italian Detective Fiction	12 records	97
ITAL 8825Italian Novel of the Novecento	12 records	93
ITAL 8855Italian Authorial Cinema	12 records	92

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All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
RLRL 1023Elementary Portuguese I	25 records	94
RLRL 1024Elementary Portuguese II	15 records	97
RLRL 1020The Immigrant in Film and Literature	11 record	100
RLRL 3320From Sappho to Stonewall Landmarks of Gay History	11 record	63
RLRL 5597Foreign Language Pedagogy	11 record	72
RLRL 6697Advanced Independent Research	11 record	—

The line

All 13 items · means across 5 records

The Professor4 items

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

9886th pctl

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

9881st pctl

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

9988th pctl

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

9983rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9782nd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9360th pctl

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

9675th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9471st pctl

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

100100th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

100100th 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.

251st pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8417th pctl

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

9783rd 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

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2025	01	86	69	20
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2024	01	96	87	20
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2023	01	87	77	—
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2022	01	94	91	40
Mattia Acetoso	Fall 2021	01	100	93	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.