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UNAS 1716

From Hiroshima to K-Pop: Historical Perspectives · 1 instructor on record · 8 sections

What the course score is made of

90BC evaluations8 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 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

49thMore challenging than 49% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

90BC — “Intellectually Challenging”8 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

30thMore work than 30% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

47BC — “Workload”8 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.

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both UNAS1716 and UNAS1717. What is the relationship between politics and popular culture? How did East Asia emerge from the wreckage of the Second World War to become the dominant political, economic, and cultural force it is in the world today? What is the relationship between politics and popular culture? Since 1945, East Asia has experienced the Cold War, civil war, communist revolution, modernization, capitalism, democratization, and economic booms and busts. It has also become a powerhouse producer of popular and art cinema. In these paired courses, students will explore the relationship between politics and culture as they learn how historians and filmmakers have grappled with the tumultuous events of the past 75 years.

The only instructor on record

8 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Ingu HwangInternational Studies	878 records	30th	49th	8816 ratings · all classes

There is no ranking to read here: Ingu Hwang is the only instructor with evaluation records for UNAS 1716, 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 Ingu Hwang

6 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
INTL 4941International Studies Senior Seminar	1022 records	84
INTL 2854Colonial Korea and its Legacies	14 records	86
INTL 2875Development and Social Justice in Korea	14 records	87
INTL 3530Korean War: Conflict, Security, and Peace	14 records	95
INTL 2856Contentious History and the Politics of Contemporary Korea	13 records	93
INTL 2860Human Rights in East Asia	12 records	79

Other UNAS classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
UNAS 1199Gateway to the Sciences Seminar	958 records	82
UNAS 3348Cross Currents Seminar: Thinking about Resilience	936 records	93
UNAS 1725Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity	529 records	82
UNAS 1005Applications of Learning Theory	827 records	84
UNAS 1702Life Liberty & Health: The Economics Policy and Law of Healthcare	224 records	78
UNAS 3337Cross Currents: Thinking about Multicultural Leadership	1224 records	75

The line

All 13 items · means across 8 records

The Professor4 items

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

8822nd 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.

9243rd pctl

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

9449th pctl

The Course3 items

Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.

9251st pctl

Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.

9043rd pctl

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

9247th pctl

Assignments & Feedback3 items

Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.

9260th pctl

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

9464th pctl

Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.

9148th 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.

4730th pctl

Intellectually ChallengingThe course was intellectually challenging.

9049th pctl

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

9466th 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

8 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2025	01	56	63	60
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2024	01	84	84	40
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2023	01	86	90	—
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2023	02	89	91	—
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2022	01	99	99	40
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2022	02	98	98	40
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2021	01	92	96	60
Ingu Hwang	Fall 2021	02	92	96	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.