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GERM 2205

Vienna Art & Architecture · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

100BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Summer 2024 – Summer 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

9thMore challenging than 9% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

80BC — “Intellectually Challenging”2 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

25thMore work than 25% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

40BC — “Workload”2 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.

Must apply through the Office of Global Education This summer study abroad course on location in Vienna, Austria centers on the city and the cultural achievements of key protagonists from the fields of fine art, applied art, and architecture. After developing a base knowledge of Gothic and Baroque architecture, the course draws a line from Historicism, the style prevailing in the second half of the 19th century, to Art Nouveau, the style of the young, and provides an outlook on the Austrian type of Expressionism and modernism in architecture. Vienna will serve as an example of the movement of artistic movements between the European centers: Baroque from Rome to Vienna, Art Nouveau in Paris and Vienna, Wiener Werksttte to Weimar Germany Bauhaus, and Expressionism between Vienna and Berlin.Students will submit written reflections and a photographic typology as a final project.Taught in English.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Nicholas BlockGerman Studies Provisional	922 records	25th	9th	605 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Nicholas Block is the only instructor with evaluation records for GERM 2205, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, 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 Nicholas Block

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
GERM 1001Elementary German I	420 records	85
GERM 1002Elementary German II	318 records	81
GERM 1050Intermediate German I	616 records	83
GERM 1051Intermediate German II	615 records	86
GERM 1003Elementary German Practicum I	25 records	85
GERM 1004Elementary German Practicum II	15 records	89

Other GERM classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
GERM 1001Elementary German I	420 records	85
GERM 1002Elementary German II	318 records	81
GERM 1050Intermediate German I	616 records	83
GERM 1061Intensive Reading in German	216 records	84
GERM 1051Intermediate German II	615 records	86
GERM 1003Elementary German Practicum I	25 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 2 records

The Professor4 items

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

9561st pctl

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

8817th pctl

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

9240th pctl

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

9771st pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9575th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9680th pctl

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

9463rd pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9045th pctl

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

9148th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8833rd 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.

4025th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

809th pctl

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

9990th 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

2 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Nicholas Block	Summer 2025	01	90	100	40
Nicholas Block	Summer 2024	01	93	100	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.