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EESC 8801

Thesis Seminar · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of

100BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022

—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

100thMore challenging than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record · 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

100thMore work than 100% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

100BC — “Workload”1 record · 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.

Thesis research under the guidance of a faculty member.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Noah SnyderEarth and Environmental Sciences Provisional	—1 record	100th	100th	727 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Noah Snyder is the only instructor with evaluation records for EESC 8801, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, 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 Noah Snyder

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
EESC 2201Environmental Systems: The Human Footprint	516 records	72
EESC 5582Senior Environmental Geoscience Research Seminar I	37 records	79
EESC 1170Rivers and the Environment	15 records	73
EESC 2203Environmental Systems: Water Resources	22 records	71
EESC 6697Special Topics in Geomorphology	22 records	80
EESC 5583Senior Research Seminar II	11 record	92

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 1 record

The Course2 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

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Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

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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.

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Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

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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. 9 of 13 questions were not reported and are left out rather than shown as zero.

Game log

1 section · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Noah Snyder	Spring 2022	02	—	100	100

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.