Class record · ECON · MCAS

ECON 1704

Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity · 4 instructors on record · 23 sections

What the course score is made of

82BC evaluations23 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2022 – Fall 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

48thMore challenging than 48% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

90BC — “Intellectually Challenging”23 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

47thMore work than 47% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

58BC — “Workload”23 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.

The board

4 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

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	Geoffrey SanzenbacherProfessor of the Practice · Economics	9412 records	47th	48th	9821 ratings · all classes
2	Neil MccullaghComplex Problems and Enduring Questions Provisional	902 records	—	—	943 ratings · all classes
3	Nora GrossComplex Problems and Enduring Questions	883 records	78th	44th	1007 ratings · all classes
4	Hongyan YangComplex Problems and Enduring Questions	636 records	—	—	—no page

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. 1 of 4 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. 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 23 records

The Professor4 items

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

9451st pctl

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

9455th pctl

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

9351st pctl

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

9446th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

8834th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

8832nd pctl

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

8719th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

8620th pctl

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

9149th 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.

5847th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9048th pctl

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

8935th 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

23 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2025	01	91	80	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2024	01	89	78	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2023	01	97	81	—
Hongyan Yang	Fall 2023	01	60	81	—
Neil Mccullagh	Fall 2023	01	90	81	—
Hongyan Yang	Fall 2023	02	61	81	—
Hongyan Yang	Fall 2023	03	71	87	—
Hongyan Yang	Fall 2023	04	69	85	—
Hongyan Yang	Fall 2023	05	53	80	—
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2023	06	96	83	—
Hongyan Yang	Fall 2023	06	64	83	—
Neil Mccullagh	Fall 2023	06	90	83	—
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	01	96	80	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	02	98	91	60
Nora Gross	Fall 2022	02	90	91	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	03	93	82	60
Nora Gross	Fall 2022	03	85	82	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	04	93	76	60
Nora Gross	Fall 2022	04	89	76	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	06	95	86	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	07	95	87	40
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	08	97	87	60
Geoffrey Sanzenbacher	Fall 2022	09	85	70	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.