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HIST 4705

In the Eye of the Hurricane: An Environmental History of Latin America · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections

What the course score is made of

65BC evaluations2 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023 – Spring 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

19thMore challenging than 19% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

84BC — “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

78thMore work than 78% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

60BC — “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.

The only instructor on record

2 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Maria De Los Angeles PiconeAssociate Professor · History Provisional	682 records	78th	19th	666 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Maria De Los Angeles Picone is the only instructor with evaluation records for HIST 4705, 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 Maria De Los Angeles Picone

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 1064Latin America in the World II	59 records	64
HIST 1734Moving Matters: Migration and Transformation Across the Americas	25 records	60
HIST 7888Graduate Colloquium: Digital Humanities	23 records	78
HIST 2302Modern Latin America	12 records	70
HIST 3364Study and Writing of History: Space before Google Maps: Geography and Power	12 records	89
HIST 5303Senior Colloquium: Global Borderlands	12 records	82

Other HIST classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
HIST 1001Europe in the World 1	2077 records	72
HIST 1002Europe in the World II	1541 records	75
HIST 1113The African Diaspora and the World I	1239 records	76
HIST 1012Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy	1134 records	75
HIST 1093Modern History I	930 records	79
HIST 1094Modern History II	824 records	81

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.

762nd pctl

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

804th pctl

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

806th pctl

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

782nd pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

692nd pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

732nd pctl

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

8926th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

808th pctl

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

8936th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

8935th 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.

6078th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

8419th pctl

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

8935th 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
Maria De Los Angeles Picone	Spring 2025	01	58	53	60
Maria De Los Angeles Picone	Fall 2023	01	78	77	—

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.