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EESC 3311

Earth System Science and Global Sustainability · 1 instructor on record · 3 sections

What the course score is made of

65BC evaluations3 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2023 – Spring 2026

—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

4thMore challenging than 4% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

77BC — “Intellectually Challenging”3 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

0thMore work than 0% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

20BC — “Workload”3 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 only instructor on record

3 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Hanqin TianEarth and Environmental Sciences	653 records	0th	4th

There is no ranking to read here: Hanqin Tian is the only instructor with evaluation records for EESC 3311, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Hanqin Tian

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCHI 3020Integrating Science and Society: A Tale of Four Nobels	33 records	51
SCHI 6020The Sustainability-Energy-Climate Nexus: Integrated Science and Society (Graduate level)	33 records	85
SCHI 7020Integrating Science and Society: A Tale of Four Nobels (Graduate Level)	33 records	90
SCHI 5020Exploring the Climate-Energy-Sustainability-Policy Nexus	22 records	80
EESC 5311Advanced Earth System Science and Global Sustainability	11 record	100
EESC 5565Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling	11 record	100

Other EESC classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
EESC 1720Crisis and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change	532 records	74
EESC 2201Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint	516 records	72
EESC 1717Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering	315 records	82
EESC 1507Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment	314 records	80
EESC 1146Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth	113 records	77
EESC 1180The Living Earth I	313 records	67

The line

All 13 items · means across 3 records

The Professor4 items

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

742nd pctl

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

731st pctl

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

762nd pctl

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

792nd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

777th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

764th pctl

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

8513th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

774th pctl

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

8419th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

798th 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.

200th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

774th pctl

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

723rd 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

3 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Hanqin Tian	Spring 2026	01	74	80	—
Hanqin Tian	Spring 2024	01	69	65	20
Hanqin Tian	Spring 2023	01	51	50	—

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.