Carney Curve

Boston College course evaluations · Fall 2021 through Spring 2026, ranked class by class

How this list is ordered

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 · SPAN · MCAS

SPAN 6645

Race and Representation in Spain (19th-21st centuries) · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built
85Teaching93 raw · 78th percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
85Curve scorethe teaching curve — nothing added or taken off

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Boston College's workload question was not reported in these records, so easiness could not be worked out. That is missing data, not a heavy class — and it takes nothing off the score.

What the course score is made of
93BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2023
—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute
—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of
—BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not an easy class.

How is this worked out?

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”1 record — does not contribute

Not reported in these records — which is missing data, not a light class.

How is this worked out?

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.

Course conducted in Spanish and fulfills the Post-1800 Peninsular requirement for Hispanic Studies majors.This course examines the literary and visual representation of race as the concept has evolved in Spain from the nineteenth century through the present. We focus particularly on how Spain's history of colonialism and contemporary waves of immigration from Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa have shaped Spanish discourses on race, such as the construction of a Spanish "race" and depictions of the racial Otherness of colonized people abroad and immigrant populations within Spain. Finally, this course amplifies the voices of those who have been subject to cultural stereotyping, orientalism, and racism throughout Spanish history from the 1800s onwards.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorCurveEasinessChallenge
Wan TangRomance Languages and Literatures Provisional9497 raw · 1 record——

There is no ranking to read here: Wan Tang is the only instructor with evaluation records for SPAN 6645, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Wan Tang

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
SPAN 3395Contextos: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish635 records84
SPAN 6607Warrior Women of Spain (Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Centuries)11 record96
SPAN 6609Portraits of Parenthood in Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Century Spain11 record88
SPAN 6630Machos ibericos: (De)constructing Masculinity in Contemporary Spain11 record100
SPAN 6632Don Juan on stage, page, and screen11 record93
SPAN 6649Haunting Modernity: The Fantastic Short Story in Nineteenth-Century Spain11 record88

Other SPAN classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
SPAN 1116Intermediate Spanish II22163 records72
SPAN 1115Intermediate Spanish I32143 records72
SPAN 1016Elementary Spanish II2695 records76
SPAN 1015Elementary Spanish I1841 records81
SPAN 2215Spanish Conversation, Composition, and Reading I641 records79
SPAN 3395Contextos: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish635 records84

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record

Nothing reported

None of the evaluation questions were reported for these records.

Game log

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Wan TangFall 2023019793—
How to read this board

Instructors 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.