ENVS 3345
Environment and Public Health · 2 instructors on record · 4 sections
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.
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.
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.
This course is designed as a seminar to give students an introduction to the field of environmental public health. The course will explore current and fundamental literature of environmental health (EH) science. We will also discuss the disproportionate burden of EH problems on vulnerable communities in the U.S. and around the world. Major topics will include air and water pollution, global sanitation and waste, toxicology, pesticides, food security, and climate change. The course has a strong emphasis on environmental justice and on the global health impacts of our environmental footprints. Students will learn about the debates and issues foregrounding the need to view ecology and human society as a whole in order to understand and prepare for these changes. The course emphasizes evidence-based approaches for arriving at program strategies and policy recommendations to improve environment health response for the most vulnerable. A significant thrust of the course will be to enable students to think of policy and programmatic approaches to communities vulnerable to environmental and climate variability.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimberly GarrettEnvironmental Studies Provisional | 961 record | 25th | 81st |
| 2 | Praveen KumarSocial Work | 893 records | 25th | 20th |
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 2 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 line
All 13 items · means across 4 recordsBar 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
4 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praveen Kumar | Fall 2025 | 01 | 87 | 88 | 40 |
| Kimberly Garrett | Fall 2024 | 01 | 96 | 89 | 40 |
| Praveen Kumar | Fall 2022 | 01 | 91 | 91 | 40 |
| Praveen Kumar | Fall 2021 | 01 | 91 | 93 | 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.