Reviews of professor Alice Astarita

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Astarita is a great teacher. She is very quick at responding to any questions you have and is very understanding. As long as you are doing your assignments you will be fine in her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Astarita is amazing. Truly. She cares about her students, and is rooting for them to succeed. She provides ample videos and assignments in the books and activities/projects to complete that you really learn. She is accessible in office hours, and if you can't make that she will find a time to meet. I think she is a fantastic teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had her for ITAL101 and when ITAL102 was canceled for the following semester, I contacted her to see what I could do. She was incredibly helpful and accommodating -- putting me in ITAL201 and providing me with support when I needed it. Assignments have very clear directions and she finds ways to make online fun and collaborative.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took her over the summer of 2021. Her class is not meant for beginner's she teaches much more advanced than that. She is simply not a beginner class and I told her that on zoom. My partner felt the same way so I realized I wasn't the only one. Everyone's experiences are different so take my advice or not but don't take her class. Petri is better.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Compared to my other professors, Alice was a great one. Being a online class, I felt she was much more accessible than many of my in-class professors at USC. Despite knowing nothing about Italian at the start, the class really wasn't that hard either. There's feedback on almost all assignments and as long as you're a proactive student your fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is really heavy work wise because it is only 8 weeks long. If you want to learn Italian this is the class to take. But if you want to put in half of the work you will find this class overwhelming. As long as you keep communicating with her, she will most likely accept late work which is helpful bc something is due almost every day.