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UNCP 5500

Capstone: One Life, Many Lives · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

86BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2024 – Spring 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

16thMore challenging than 16% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “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.

Capstone classes cannot be taken Pass/Fail. You may take only one Capstone class before graduation. This Capstone is designed for students who have engaged in service projects during college and want to reflect on that as they plan their future lives. The service projects may have been through BC (Pulse, 4Boston, Arrupe, service trips, etc.) or on their own in Boston, the U.S., or abroad. Please contact Fr. Weiss to enroll: weissj@bc.edu or 617 552 3897. This course gives you the chance to review what you have made of your education and preview your long-term life commitments to work, relationships, community, and spirituality. We read fiction, psychology, sociology, and wisdom figures to find the deeper continuity underlying our many experiences. Students lead discussions, conduct interviews of working people, and cap off their Capstone by writing their own autobiography.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
James WeissAssociate Professor · Theology Provisional	842 records	78th	16th	8814 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: James Weiss is the only instructor with evaluation records for UNCP 5500, 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 James Weiss

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
THEO 1088Person and Social Responsibility I	19120 records	87
UNCS 2201Courage to Know	21114 records	90
PHIL 1089Person and Social Responsibility II	20104 records	88
THEO 1089Person and Social Responsibility II	2598 records	90
PHIL 1088Person and Social Responsibility I	1969 records	88
THEO 5006Sexualities and Spiritualities	14 records	92

Other UNCP classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
UNCP 5505Capstone: Life and Career Planning	120 records	90
UNCP 5511Capstone: The Balancing Act	110 records	97
UNCP 5533Capstone: Desire and Discernment	18 records	98
UNCP 5521Capstone: Surviving Life with Humor	17 records	97
UNCP 5501Capstone: Authenticity and Human Development	26 records	96
UNCP 5522Capstone: Creativity and Self	16 records	88

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.

9135th pctl

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

9240th pctl

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

8928th pctl

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

9233rd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8938th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8937th pctl

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

9457th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8935th pctl

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

9254th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9251st 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.

8416th pctl

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

9357th 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
James Weiss	Spring 2025	01	68	75	60
James Weiss	Spring 2024	01	99	97	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.