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SCWK 8840

Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Implications for Social Work · 1 instructor on record · 3 sections

What the course score is made of

91BC evaluations3 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

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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

32ndMore challenging than 32% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

87BC — “Intellectually Challenging”3 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”3 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.

Realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals necessitates understanding the interface of developmental aspirations and environmental degradation and their impacts on the most fragile and vulnerable communities of the world. This course is designed as a seminar to give students an in-depth understanding of environment and climate change--its interface with communities and its impact on vulnerable populations in North America and the Global South (particularly South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa). Topics discussed in this course will explore current literature and evidence on the interactions between ecological and social systems. Students will learn about the debates and issues foregrounding the need to view ecology and human society as a whole in order to understand and prepare for these changes.The course emphasizes evidence-based approaches for arriving at program strategies and policy recommendations to improve environment and climate response of the most vulnerable. This course will cover three broad aspects: (1) Environmental and climate variability and development. Concepts on vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience. Social-Ecological-Systems Framework for understanding environment and climate impacts on communities; (2) Interventions, policies and programs in this realm in North America as well as South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa; (3) New ways of involving communities to understand and design strategies to environment and climate risk.

The only instructor on record

3 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge
Praveen KumarSocial Work	973 records	25th	32nd

There is no ranking to read here: Praveen Kumar is the only instructor with evaluation records for SCWK 8840, so the number is a record, not a position.

Also taught by Praveen Kumar

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 8889Social Innovation	110 records	90
ENVS 3345Environment and Public Health	24 records	90
SCHI 5010Forging Just, Effective Climate Policy in the UN COP Process	34 records	81
SCHI 6010Forging Just, Effective Climate Policy in the UN COP Process	11 record	68

Other SCWK classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
SCWK 8841Program Evaluation	2368 records	72
SCWK 7701The Social Welfare System	2966 records	72
SCWK 7722Psychosocial Pathology	1663 records	88
SCWK 7721Human Behavior and the Social Environment	1861 records	84
SCWK 7747Research Methods in Social Work Practice	1758 records	69
SCWK 7723Re-thinking Diversity: Systems of Oppression and Privilege	1755 records	85

The line

All 13 items · means across 3 records

The Professor4 items

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

9564th pctl

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

9558th pctl

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

9881st pctl

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

9879th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9468th pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9468th pctl

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

9566th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9576th pctl

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

9675th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9044th 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.

8732nd pctl

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

9043rd 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

3 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Praveen Kumar	Fall 2025	01	97	87	40
Praveen Kumar	Fall 2022	01	100	98	40
Praveen Kumar	Fall 2021	01	94	89	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.