SCWK 8831
Dying, Grief, and Bereavement · 1 instructor on record · 10 sections
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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.
Elective Beginning with an overview of the social phenomena of death and how social attitudes and practices influence the environmental context in which death takes place in contemporary society, the course explores the influence of cultural diversity in the way death is experienced by diverse groups. The tasks of mourning following a person's death and the bereavement process present complex socio-emotional challenges for family and friends throughout the lifespan. Issues in self-reflection and self-care are presented to offer practitioners ways to grow personally and professionally through the process of their clients' losses.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| John FranchittoSocial Work | 9810 records | 33rd | 63rd |
There is no ranking to read here: John Franchitto is the only instructor with evaluation records for SCWK 8831, so the number is a record, not a position.
Also taught by John Franchitto
2 other classesOther 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 |
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All 13 items · means across 10 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
10 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Franchitto | Spring 2026 | 01 | 99 | 98 | 40 |
| John Franchitto | Fall 2025 | 01 | 98 | 96 | 40 |
| John Franchitto | Summer 2025 | 01 | 100 | 100 | 60 |
| John Franchitto | Fall 2024 | 01 | 99 | 98 | 40 |
| John Franchitto | Summer 2024 | 01 | 99 | 98 | 60 |
| John Franchitto | Spring 2024 | 01 | 99 | 98 | 40 |
| John Franchitto | Fall 2023 | 01 | 99 | 97 | — |
| John Franchitto | Fall 2022 | 01 | 96 | 93 | — |
| John Franchitto | Summer 2022 | 01 | 99 | 96 | 60 |
| John Franchitto | Fall 2021 | 01 | 98 | 99 | 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.