Carney Curve

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

Top of the board1.ECON 9902962.LAWS 8856973.PRTO 3300984.BSLW 2299975.PHIL 4932986.LAWS 8308987.SCWK 9960998.EESC 99011009.MUSP 16609610.UGMG 10109811.UNCP 55119712.SCWK 883197

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 · POLI · MCAS

POLI 2548

The World Wars: Causes, Conduct, and Unintended Consequences · 1 instructor on record · 4 sections

What the course score is made of
86BC evaluations4 records · weight ×1.0 · Spring 2022 – Spring 2026
—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”4 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”4 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

4 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallengeRMP overall
Lindsey O'rourkeAssociate Professor · Political Science864 records——964 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Lindsey O'rourke is the only instructor with evaluation records for POLI 2548, so the number is a record, not a position. The RateMyProfessors figure is their overall score across everything they teach, not their score in this class.

Also taught by Lindsey O'rourke

4 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
POLI 2549United States Foreign Policy 1945 to Present14 records89
POLI 2550Nuclear Weapons and International Relations14 records87
POLI 4595Current Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy13 records95
POLI 2500International Politics and Morality11 record65

Other POLI classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
POLI 1021How to Rule the World: Introduction to Political Theory645 records82
POLI 1041Fundamental Concepts of Politics1037 records76
POLI 2360Seminar: Rights in Conflict923 records84
POLI 1042Introduction to Modern Politics519 records83
POLI 2665The Question of Justice919 records80
POLI 2440A Continent on the Move: Immigration in Contemporary Europe110 records86

The line

All 13 items · means across 4 records

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

4 sections · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Lindsey O'rourkeSpring 2026018984—
Lindsey O'rourkeSpring 2025019388—
Lindsey O'rourkeSpring 2024018585—
Lindsey O'rourkeSpring 2022017887—

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.