Carney Curve

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

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 · UNAS · MCAS

UNAS 2211

Food, Race, Nation · 1 instructor on record · 1 section

What the course score is made of
80BC evaluations1 record · weight ×1.0 · 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
12thMore challenging than 12% of BC classesranked against every one we hold
82BC — “Intellectually Challenging”1 record · 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”1 record · 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.

The only instructor on record

1 section · nobody else has taught itFull record
InstructorOverallWorkloadChallenge
Hongyan YangComplex Problems and Enduring Questions Provisional781 record25th12th

There is no ranking to read here: Hongyan Yang is the only instructor with evaluation records for UNAS 2211, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 1 record, which is thin — read it as provisional.

Also taught by Hongyan Yang

5 other classes
ClassInstructorsCourse score
UNAS 1725Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity529 records82
ECON 1704Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity423 records82
HIST 1621The "Other" Americans: Representation and Reality in Asian America313 records77
UNAS 1729The "Other" Americans: Representation and Reality in Asian America39 records83
HIST 1730Making American Landscapes: Building and Living in Asian America13 records63

Other UNAS classes

All of them
ClassInstructorsCourse score
UNAS 1199Gateway to the Sciences Seminar958 records82
UNAS 3348Cross Currents Seminar: Thinking about Resilience936 records93
UNAS 1725Real Estate and Urban Action: Transforming Communities and Increasing Access to Opportunity529 records82
UNAS 1005Applications of Learning Theory827 records84
UNAS 1702Life Liberty & Health: The Economics Policy and Law of Healthcare224 records78
UNAS 3337Cross Currents: Thinking about Multicultural Leadership1224 records75

The line

All 13 items · means across 1 record
The Professor4 items
Clearly Explains MaterialThe instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
806th pctl
Available Outside of ClassThe instructor was available for help outside of class.
8511th pctl
Brings Out Your Best WorkThe instructor motivated me to do my best work.
8514th pctl
Sparked My InterestThe course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
9551st pctl
The Course3 items
Well-Organized CourseThe course was well organized.
8937th pctl
Clear Learning GoalsThe learning objectives for the course were clear.
8520th pctl
Useful Beyond the CourseWhat I learned is applicable beyond this course.
849th pctl
Assignments & Feedback3 items
Assignments Help You LearnAssignments and exams contributed to my learning.
8210th pctl
Gives Feedback PromptlyI received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
8524th pctl
Meaningful FeedbackThe feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
8936th 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.
8212th pctl
Attendance MattersAttending class was necessary to do well in this course.
9146th 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

1 section · newest first
InstructorTermSecInstrCourseWork
Hongyan YangFall 202501788040

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.