Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · every published number, ranked class by class

Positions 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.

Class record · EESC · MCAS

EESC 5311

Advanced Earth System Science and Global Sustainability · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of
100BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · 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
BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of
BC — “Workload”1 record — does not contribute

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallenge
Hanqin TianEarth and Environmental Sciences Provisional1001 record

There is no ranking to read here: Hanqin Tian is the only instructor with evaluation records for EESC 5311, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Hanqin Tian

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
EESC 3311Earth System Science and Global Sustainability13 records65
SCHI 3020Integrating Science and Society: A Tale of Four Nobels33 records51
SCHI 6020The Sustainability-Energy-Climate Nexus: Integrated Science and Society (Graduate level)33 records85
SCHI 7020Integrating Science and Society: A Tale of Four Nobels (Graduate Level)33 records90
SCHI 5020Exploring the Climate-Energy-Sustainability-Policy Nexus22 records80
EESC 5565Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling11 record100

Other EESC classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
EESC 1720Crisis and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change532 records74
EESC 2201Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint516 records72
EESC 1717Making the Modern World: Design, Ethics, and Engineering315 records82
EESC 1507Powering America: The Past and Future of Energy, Technology, and the Environment314 records80
EESC 1146Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth113 records77
EESC 1180The Living Earth I313 records67

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Hanqin TianSpring 202601100100

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.