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THEO 1724

POD Leadership Seminar Faith, Ethics, and the Sciences · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

88BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2023

—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

74thMore challenging than 74% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

94BC — “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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “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
Russell PowellComplex Problems and Enduring Questions Provisional	901 record	25th	74th	802 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Russell Powell is the only instructor with evaluation records for THEO 1724, 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 Russell Powell

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
ENGR 1801Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics & Engineering	830 records	81
HIST 1627Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics & Engineering	418 records	87
PHIL 1723Faith, Ethics, and the Sciences in the 21st Century	417 records	74
EESC 1717Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering	315 records	82
THEO 1723Faith, Ethics, and the Sciences in the 21st Century	312 records	78
UNCS 1619POD Leadership Seminar Making the Modern World	33 records	72

Other THEO classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
THEO 1402God, Self, and Society	55175 records	82
THEO 1091Perspectives on Western Culture II/Perspectives II	41125 records	86
THEO 1088Person and Social Responsibility I	19120 records	87
THEO 1401Engaging Catholicism	43114 records	78
THEO 1090Perspectives on Western Culture I/Perspectives I	33107 records	85
THEO 1089Person and Social Responsibility II	2598 records	90

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.

9343rd pctl

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

9343rd pctl

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

9345th pctl

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

9337th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9887th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9888th pctl

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

9885th pctl

Assignments & Feedback2 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9788th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9149th 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.

4025th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9474th pctl

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

9885th 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. 1 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Russell Powell	Spring 2023	01	90	88	40

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.