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 · TMHC · STM

TMHC 7229

Great Christian Thinkers: Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

How the curve score is built
73Teaching84 raw · 37th percentile of BC classes
±0Easiness adjustmentworkload not reported — takes nothing off the score
73Curve 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
84BC 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.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorCurveEasinessChallenge
Franklin HarkinsTheology and Ministry Provisional7284 raw · 1 record——

There is no ranking to read here: Franklin Harkins is the only instructor with evaluation records for TMHC 7229, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Franklin Harkins

6 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
TMHC 7027History of Western Christianity II: 850-165035 records79
TMTM 2008Introductory Latin: Summer Intensive15 records85
TMHC 7228Introduction to Thomas Aquinas13 records93
TMTM 8114Intermediate Latin Readings13 records88
TMHC 7230Medieval Theology12 records85
TMHC 8067The Book of Job in the Middle Ages12 records90

Other TMHC classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
TMHC 7026History of Western Christianity I: 100-85036 records86
TMHC 7027History of Western Christianity II: 850-165035 records79
TMHC 7218Introduction to Ignatian Spirituality35 records88
TMHC 7195Classic Wisdom for Discerning the Spirits14 records91
TMHC 7022Spiritual Autobiography: Journeys into the Self and God13 records72
TMHC 7179History of Western Christianity III: Catholicism from the French Revolution to Vatican II13 records80

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
Franklin HarkinsFall 2023018484—
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.