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SLAV 1161

Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov: What is the Good Life? · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

66BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022

—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

39thMore challenging than 39% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

89BC — “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.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Thomas EpsteinProfessor of the Practice · Classical Studies Provisional	691 record	78th	39th	6813 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Thomas Epstein is the only instructor with evaluation records for SLAV 1161, 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 Thomas Epstein

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UNAS 1715War and Peace: Historical and Literary Experiences	13 records	69
CLAS 1604Perspectives on Art: Techniques and Technology	12 records	73

Other SLAV classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SLAV 1123Elementary Russian Practicum	227 records	90
SLAV 1121Elementary Russian I	26 records	89
SLAV 1122Elementary Russian II	26 records	86
SLAV 2122Intermediate Russian II	16 records	92
SLAV 2121Intermediate Russian I	15 records	85
SLAV 2162Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)	25 records	90

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.

838th pctl

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

804th 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.

8919th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

601st pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

691st pctl

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

838th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8621st pctl

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

693rd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8010th 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.

8939th pctl

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

8623rd 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
Thomas Epstein	Spring 2022	01	69	66	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.