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SPAN 9943

Historiography, Memory, and Autobiography in Colonial Latin American Texts · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

80BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2025

—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

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

95BC — “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

93rdMore work than 93% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

80BC — “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
Sarah BeckjordAssociate Professor of Hispanic Studies · Romance Languages and Literatures Provisional	901 record	93rd	79th	684 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Sarah Beckjord is the only instructor with evaluation records for SPAN 9943, 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 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 6678Early Spanish American Women Writers	12 records	88
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

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 1 record

The Professor4 items

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

9561st pctl

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

100100th pctl

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

9562nd pctl

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

9025th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9043rd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9042nd pctl

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

8513th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9578th pctl

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

9572nd pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9043rd 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.

8093rd pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9579th pctl

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

9571st 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
Sarah Beckjord	Fall 2025	01	90	80	80

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.