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SOCY 1043

Introduction to African-American Society · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of

84BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023 – Spring 2025

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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

56thMore challenging than 56% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

91BC — “Intellectually Challenging”4 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

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

60BC — “Workload”4 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.

To get Sociology credit for the major or minor, you must register for SOCY1043 rather than cross-listed course. In 1896, distinguished scholar W.E.B. DuBois became convinced that the experience of Africans in the Americas was so distinctive that it was imperative to study Black people in order to understand power dynamics at all levels of society. This course will study those power dynamics. While paying particular attention to the many ways that racial power dynamics have impacted all people of African descent in the United States, this course does not assume a uniform Black experience. We shall see that gender, class, and sexuality greatly shape the differing experiences of African-Americans.

The only instructor on record

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Clifton McguffeySociology	854 records	78th	56th

There is no ranking to read here: Clifton Mcguffey is the only instructor with evaluation records for SOCY 1043, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Clifton Mcguffey

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology	2657 records	82
AADS 1110Introduction to African Diaspora Studies	510 records	80
SOCY 1049Social Problems	38 records	88
AADS 3376Conflict Zones: Race and Gender-Based Violence in the African Diaspora	11 record	90
SOCY 1233Creatively Re/Imagining Black Worlds: Empathy and the Social Life of Fiction in the African Diaspora	11 record	—
SOCY 3652Trauma, Culture & Coping	11 record	74

Other SOCY classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology	2657 records	82
SOCY 2210Research Methods	723 records	79
SOCY 1030Deviance and Social Control	213 records	74
SOCY 2215Social Theory	313 records	76
SOCY 2200Statistics	311 records	74
SOCY 1501Global Implications of Climate Change	310 records	78

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

The Professor4 items

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

9136th pctl

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

826th pctl

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

9033rd pctl

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

9557th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9148th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9250th pctl

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

9672nd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8830th pctl

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

789th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

775th 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.

9156th pctl

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

9678th 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

4 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Clifton Mcguffey	Spring 2025	01	85	81	60
Clifton Mcguffey	Fall 2024	01	84	85	60
Clifton Mcguffey	Spring 2024	01	95	91	60
Clifton Mcguffey	Fall 2023	01	78	81	—

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.