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TMST 8053

M.T.S. Thesis · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

60BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2026

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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

100thMore challenging than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “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.

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The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Orfilio ValienteTheology and Ministry Provisional	—1 record	78th	100th

There is no ranking to read here: Orfilio Valiente is the only instructor with evaluation records for TMST 8053, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Orfilio Valiente

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
TMST 7024Christology	614 records	88
TMST 7057Theological Foundations in Practical Perspective	611 records	91
TMST 8564Reconciliation in a World of Conflict	14 records	99
TMST 8562The Theology of Johann Baptist Metz	13 records	94
TMST 8065Ellacuria, Sobrino, Romero	12 records	96
TMST 8115Theology of Liberation	12 records	99

Other TMST classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
TMST 7024Christology	614 records	88
TMST 7020The Church	313 records	91
TMST 7057Theological Foundations in Practical Perspective	611 records	91
TMST 7081Writing and Research for Theology and Ministry	210 records	89
TMST 7009Fundamental Theology	39 records	87
TMST 7058Sacraments in the Life of the Church	25 records	94

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

The Course2 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

601st pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

600th 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.

100100th 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. 9 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
Orfilio Valiente	Spring 2026	01	—	60	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.