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Boston College course evaluations · every published number, ranked class by class

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted.

Class record · SPAN · MCAS

SPAN 6609

Portraits of Parenthood in Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Century Spain · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of
88BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 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
30thMore challenging than 30% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
87BC — “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
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallenge
Wan TangRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional921 record78th30th

There is no ranking to read here: Wan Tang is the only instructor with evaluation records for SPAN 6609, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Wan Tang

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
SPAN 3395Contextos: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish635 records84
SPAN 6607Warrior Women of Spain (Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Centuries)11 record96
SPAN 6630Machos ibericos: (De)constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Spain11 record100
SPAN 6632Don Juan on stage, page, and screen11 record93
SPAN 6645Race and Representation in Spain (19th-21st centuries)11 record93
SPAN 6649Haunting Modernity: The Fantastic Short Story in Nineteenth-Century Spain11 record88

Other SPAN classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
SPAN 1116Intermediate Spanish II22163 records72
SPAN 1115Intermediate Spanish I32143 records72
SPAN 1016Elementary Spanish II2695 records76
SPAN 1015Elementary Spanish I1841 records81
SPAN 2215Spanish Conversation, Composition, and Reading I641 records79
SPAN 3395Contextos: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish635 records84

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.
9346th pctl
Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.
9452nd pctl
Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.
9347th pctl
Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
9233rd pctl
The Course3 items
Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.
9574th pctl
Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.
9574th pctl
Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.
849th pctl
Assignments & Feedback3 items
Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.
9148th pctl
Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
9359th pctl
Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
9358th 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.
8730th pctl
Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.
9466th 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
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Wan TangFall 202201928860

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.