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SPAN 6678

Early Spanish American Women Writers · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2024 – Spring 2025

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—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

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What the challenge rank is made of

79thMore challenging than 79% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

95BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 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”2 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.

Conducted in Spanis. Fulfills pre-1900 requirement in Latin American literature for Hispanic Studies Majors; elective for Minors in Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women's Studies. Early Spanish-American society offered both unique opportunities and constraints for women writers. From women who participated in military campaigns to others who wrote from the convent or in the context of the literary circle, these authors reflect on the position of women in society, as well as on questions of love, marriage, family, work, and the public role of the female thinker and writer. Readings in a variety of genres by major writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, and connections to representative twentieth-century works.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Sarah BeckjordAssociate Professor of Hispanic Studies · Romance Languages and Literatures Provisional	902 records	78th	79th	684 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Sarah Beckjord is the only instructor with evaluation records for SPAN 6678, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, 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 Sarah Beckjord

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SPAN 6628Latin American Short Story	13 records	87
SPAN 6648Borderlands: the Literature of Hispanic Migration in the US	12 records	82
SPAN 6614The Colonial Imagination: History and Identity in Spanish America	11 record	78
SPAN 6641Literature of the Colonial and Postcolonial Hispanic Carribbean	11 record	80
SPAN 6643Historiography, Memory, and Autobiography in Colonial Latin American Texts	11 record	60
SPAN 6655Writing and Memory in the Andean World	11 record	100

Other SPAN classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SPAN 1116Intermediate Spanish II	22163 records	72
SPAN 1115Intermediate Spanish I	32143 records	72
SPAN 1016Elementary Spanish II	2695 records	76
SPAN 1015Elementary Spanish I	1841 records	81
SPAN 2215Spanish Conversation, Composition, and Reading I	641 records	79
SPAN 3395Contextos: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish	635 records	84

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

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

9557th pctl

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

9779th pctl

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

9559th pctl

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

9338th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9679th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9466th 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.

9367th pctl

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

9253rd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9462nd 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.

9579th pctl

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

9886th 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

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Sarah Beckjord	Spring 2025	01	100	100	—
Sarah Beckjord	Spring 2024	01	80	77	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.