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BIOL 4440

Vaccination and Immunity · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections

What the course score is made of

76BC evaluations5 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

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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

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

86BC — “Intellectually Challenging”5 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

29thMore work than 29% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

45BC — “Workload”5 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.

No one could have imagined the devastating effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The impact and scale were unprecedented, especially that the richest and most advanced countries of the globe were the most affected. With a record-breaking speed of less than a year, 3 of COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Oxford/AstraZeneca) and later Johnson & Johnson/Janssen, received approval in Europe and the US. Millions of lives were saved but vaccine hesitancy is still prevalent worldwide.It is imperative that lessons be learned from COVID-19 and other major pandemics such as Zika, Influenza, Ebola and HIV.1- review basic concepts of human-pathogen interactions; 2- learn the basic principles of immunity and vaccination; 3- and discuss a few major infectious diseases through case studies

The only instructor on record

5 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Ismael FofanaBiology	795 records	29th	25th

There is no ranking to read here: Ismael Fofana is the only instructor with evaluation records for BIOL 4440, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Ismael Fofana

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
UNAS 1199Gateway to the Sciences Seminar	958 records	82
BIOL 4830Research in Molecular Biology Lab	110 records	92
BIOL 4570Principles of Immunology	25 records	79
BIOL 5150Vaccine Development and Public Health	12 records	82

Other BIOL classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
BIOL 2040Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology Lab	2176 records	87
BIOL 1310Anatomy and Physiology Lab 1	443 records	78
BIOL 1330Anatomy and Physiology Lab 2	443 records	76
BIOL 2210Microbiology for Health Professionals Laboratory	341 records	84
BIOL 4260Human Anatomy with Lab	135 records	86
BIOL 4330Human Physiology	128 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 5 records

The Professor4 items

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

8717th pctl

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

8613th pctl

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

8925th pctl

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

9130th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

734th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

786th pctl

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

9136th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8416th pctl

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

8215th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8112th 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.

4529th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8625th pctl

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

9249th 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

5 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Ismael Fofana	Fall 2025	01	88	85	60
Ismael Fofana	Fall 2024	01	68	62	40
Ismael Fofana	Fall 2023	01	70	67	—
Ismael Fofana	Fall 2022	01	85	81	40
Ismael Fofana	Fall 2021	01	85	85	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.