INTL 2204
Where on Earth: Foundations in Global Culture & Political Geography · 2 instructors on record · 20 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.
Restricted for rising sophomores, International Studies MajorsWhere on Earth introduces you to the International Studies Program, offering you different approaches to analyzing geographic and historic phenomena in order to understand our current world. Where on Earth: Foundations in Political Geography and Global Cultures draws from the way that the discipline of Geography and the other social sciences understand the production of politics and culture as both locally and globally contingentthat is, no phenomena are discretely produced within the bounds of the nation-state, while simultaneously they reflect localized histories, cultures, and political-economy. We will engage with many themes and topics that explore the structural and interconnected causes of global issues: we will look at histories of colonialism and how they reverberate into the present, at the institutions of borders and nation-states, how economic systems shape our world, how different ideas about race, gender, and class are intertwined with local and global cultural and social forces, developmental policy and debate, the science and politics of climate change, and engage with critical questions of environmental and social justice in an ever changing and globalized world. We will not focus on any one region, instead opting for a global survey of cases that will allow us to critically interrogate the uneven production of space and strive to understand different approaches to addressing global inequality. Students will complete a number of reading reflections and two exams, and work with their peers on collaborative assignments.
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 | Joseph GetzoffInternational Studies | 9615 records | 26th | 63rd |
| 2 | Andrew GrantInternational Studies | 735 records | 30th | 41st |
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.
The line
All 13 items · means across 20 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
20 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2025 | 01 | 97 | 94 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2025 | 02 | 98 | 95 | 40 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2025 | 03 | 95 | 91 | 40 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2025 | 04 | 97 | 94 | 40 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2025 | 05 | 97 | 94 | 40 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2024 | 01 | 95 | 92 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2024 | 02 | 98 | 97 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2024 | 03 | 92 | 91 | 60 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2024 | 04 | 94 | 92 | 40 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2024 | 05 | 95 | 92 | 40 |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2023 | 01 | 96 | 93 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2023 | 02 | 93 | 89 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2023 | 03 | 93 | 91 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2023 | 04 | 97 | 95 | — |
| Joseph Getzoff | Fall 2023 | 05 | 99 | 98 | — |
| Andrew Grant | Fall 2021 | 01 | 71 | 68 | — |
| Andrew Grant | Fall 2021 | 02 | 69 | 67 | 40 |
| Andrew Grant | Fall 2021 | 03 | 64 | 62 | — |
| Andrew Grant | Fall 2021 | 04 | 68 | 68 | 60 |
| Andrew Grant | Fall 2021 | 05 | 93 | 90 | 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.