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SCWK 8806

Global Policy Issues and Implications · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

70BC 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

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

70BC — “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

29thMore work than 29% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

45BC — “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.

Required for, and restricted to, Global Practice Field-of-Practice. An advanced policy course that introduces approaches, issues, and competencies of global social work policy interventions. This course focuses on policy analysis in the context of world-wide poverty, underdevelopment, and sustainable development. In the context of social justice, equality, universal human rights and international collaboration (partnerships), it perceives global systems and their policies as both a challenge for a sustainable planet and for the growth of its interdependent national/local communities.

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Maryanne LoughrySocial Work	745 records	29th	1st

There is no ranking to read here: Maryanne Loughry is the only instructor with evaluation records for SCWK 8806, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Maryanne Loughry

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 7719Independent Study: International Policy	28 records	87
APSY 6461Psychological Responses to Humanitarian Crises	24 records	89
SCWK 8820Trauma Informed Psychosocial Interventions	14 records	75
SCWK 8853Global Humanitarian Practice	13 records	82

Other SCWK classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 8841Program Evaluation	2368 records	72
SCWK 7701The Social Welfare System	2966 records	72
SCWK 7722Psychosocial Pathology	1663 records	88
SCWK 7721Human Behavior and the Social Environment	1861 records	84
SCWK 7747Research Methods in Social Work Practice	1758 records	69
SCWK 7723Re-thinking Diversity: Systems of Oppression and Privilege	1755 records	85

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.

773rd pctl

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

8818th pctl

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

773rd pctl

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

825th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

755th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

712nd pctl

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

826th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

785th pctl

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

8627th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

754th 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.

4529th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

701st pctl

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

776th 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
Maryanne Loughry	Fall 2025	01	80	75	60
Maryanne Loughry	Fall 2024	01	47	47	40
Maryanne Loughry	Fall 2023	01	90	93	—
Maryanne Loughry	Fall 2022	01	70	61	40
Maryanne Loughry	Fall 2021	01	83	73	40

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.