UNAS 3330
Cross Currents Seminar: Thinking About Race · 3 instructors on record · 17 sections
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.
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.
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 Cross Currents: Thinking About Race seminar explores the concept of race; the effects of race on individuals; the presentation and negotiation of race in society; and the role of race at Boston College. The topics covered in the course are not only important, but also complex and provocative. The seminar is an opportunity to have candid conversations with others who are also exploring race and its effects in society. The seminar will help develop your understanding and intellectually through discussions with other students.
Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them.
| Rank | Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge | RMP overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chasneika AstacioUniversity and Capstone | 943 records | 2nd | 24th | —no page |
| 2 | Karl BellUniversity and Capstone | 909 records | 2nd | 25th | 1001 rating · all classes |
| 3 | Denise MashmasarmiUniversity and Capstone | 905 records | 2nd | 49th | 1001 rating · all classes |
How this board is orderedPositions 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. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.
Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Overall is the instructor's blended score for THIS class only, and its one contributing source is Boston College's evaluations for the sections in the row's record count — nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Workload and Challenge are RANKS against every class we hold, not scores: BC's questions all sit near the top of the 1-5 scale, so a raw number would put almost every row in the high eighties and tell you nothing. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item, which students answer positively about courses that stretched them — it is not a measure of difficulty or grading. Neither column is ever marked better or worse. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach; that site has no course dimension, so it is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.
The line
All 13 items · means across 17 recordsBar 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
17 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Bell | Spring 2026 | 01 | 73 | 70 | 20 |
| Denise Mashmasarmi | Fall 2025 | 01 | 100 | 88 | 40 |
| Karl Bell | Fall 2025 | 01 | 89 | 88 | 40 |
| Denise Mashmasarmi | Spring 2025 | 01 | 91 | 93 | 20 |
| Karl Bell | Spring 2025 | 01 | 93 | 93 | 20 |
| Denise Mashmasarmi | Fall 2024 | 01 | 68 | 82 | 40 |
| Karl Bell | Fall 2024 | 01 | 84 | 82 | 40 |
| Denise Mashmasarmi | Spring 2024 | 01 | 89 | 92 | 40 |
| Karl Bell | Spring 2024 | 01 | 91 | 92 | 40 |
| Denise Mashmasarmi | Spring 2023 | 01 | 100 | 94 | 20 |
| Karl Bell | Spring 2023 | 01 | 100 | 94 | 20 |
| Chasneika Astacio | Fall 2022 | 01 | 85 | 80 | 20 |
| Karl Bell | Fall 2022 | 01 | 87 | 80 | 20 |
| Chasneika Astacio | Spring 2022 | 01 | 100 | 100 | — |
| Karl Bell | Spring 2022 | 01 | 100 | 100 | — |
| Chasneika Astacio | Fall 2021 | 01 | 96 | 92 | 40 |
| Karl Bell | Fall 2021 | 01 | 92 | 92 | 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.