Class record · SOCY · MCAS

SOCY 1133

Self, Health, and Illness: Societal Perspectives · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

86BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 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

12thMore challenging than 12% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

82BC — “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.

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both SOCY1133 and UNAS1739. How does our biology and the larger society shape our understanding of ourselves, health, and illness? These paired courses address enduring questions about nature and nurture by exploring fundamental human experiences of health and illness from both biological and sociological perspectives. One aim is to examine the concept of self in relation to genomics, the microbiome, and society. Another aim is to critically appraise human difference from biological, social, and environmental perspectives. Using examples from biomedical discovery and precision healthcare, students will examine their values and discuss how we as a society can manage the ethical, legal, and societal implications of this rapidly changing healthcare landscape.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Latrica BestAssociate Professor · Sociology Provisional	791 record	78th	12th

There is no ranking to read here: Latrica Best is the only instructor with evaluation records for SOCY 1133, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Latrica Best

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SOCY 1001Introductory Sociology	2657 records	82
SOCY 4961Senior Honors Seminar	25 records	96
AADS 4400Racialized Medicine	14 records	90
SOCY 1096Aging and Society	24 records	84
SOCY 7711Empirical Research Seminar	24 records	94
AADS 3400Food Justice Across the African Diaspora	13 records	82

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 1 record

The Professor4 items

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

9241st pctl

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

8923rd pctl

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

8717th pctl

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

825th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9043rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8831st pctl

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

9247th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9045th pctl

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

683rd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8416th 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.

8212th pctl

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

9467th 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
Latrica Best	Fall 2025	01	79	86	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.