Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · every published number, ranked class by class

Positions 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.

Class record · JOUR · MCAS

JOUR 2238

Food Writing · 1 instructor on record · 9 sections

What the course score is made of
92BC evaluations9 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – 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
BC — “Intellectually Challenging”9 records — does not contribute

Boston College's “intellectually challenging” question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not an easy class.

What the workload rank is made of
BC — “Workload”9 records — does not contribute

Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so there is nothing to show. That is missing data, not a light class.

The only instructor on record

9 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallenge
John O'connorUniversity and Capstone949 records

There is no ranking to read here: John O'connor is the only instructor with evaluation records for JOUR 2238, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by John O'connor

2 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
JOUR 2255Writing Narrative Journalism16 records96
JOUR 2301Journalism on Drugs14 records94

Other JOUR classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
JOUR 2000Introduction to Journalism619 records86
JOUR 2226Writing About Popular Music112 records89
JOUR 2223Sports and News Broadcasting110 records86
JOUR 2225Journalism and New Media110 records86
JOUR 2231Feature Writing210 records94
JOUR 4942Senior Seminar410 records91

The line

All 13 items · means across 9 records

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

9 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
John O'connorSummer 20250110087
John O'connorSpring 2025019194
John O'connorFall 2024019795
John O'connorSpring 2024019895
John O'connorFall 2023019597
John O'connorSpring 2023019997
John O'connorFall 2022018987
John O'connorSpring 2022018683
John O'connorFall 2021019593

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.