Reviews of professor Riccardo Ferracuti

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took Prof Ricky for both ASL 101 and 102, he is the kindest most caring professor I have come across! He will take the time to make you laugh and make sure you are alright as well as make sure you understand. If you do the workbook & video journals you will be fine. Only 2 quizzes but he will tell you before what you need to know. He's the best.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took Prof. Ricky this past semester and I personally enjoyed him a lot. He does get off topic sometimes, but his tangents are usually talking about deaf culture. I would highly suggest him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I have had Ricky for ASL 100, 101 and now this class. He always takes the time to make sure you understand and can be reached through marco polo. Really cares about his students, does get distracted with stories but it makes it a fun class, he will always try to make sure he makes you smile and feel respected as an equal, not looked down on.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you are skilled in ASL you'll do great in this class. He barley covers the textbook material and we don't practice in class, the only practice you get is from asking questions. You'll get good grades if you put in some effort. You won't have to take the final if you have a 93%. I enjoyed his stories/class as he is a very funny and sweet guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of my favorite professors. Very fast paced but if you pay attention and do the work you should be fine. Absolutely hilarious. Will go off on tangents on occasion, but will stop to make sure you can still understand him while he does. Responds to emails quickly, but comes across with a weird tone somtimes since english is like his 4th language

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I would not recommend. He discriminates against students of other backgrounds and religions. He goes off on tangents of stories that include very inappropriate use of language and unwanted objectification of other persons. While I did learn in the class, I felt very hurt by his rude comments and he ruined ASL for me, a language I used to love.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ricky is a nice and caring prof. and I am super grateful to have him as a teacher. I do agree that he goes off on tangents, sometimes we would go an entire class without studying the material because he would tell stories instead. I found myself relying on deaf events to practice my signing, but I got a lot better at reading signs from his stories.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I also tried taking this professor, his teaching style is awful, you will not learn a lot in his class, he wasted a lot of time talking about personal stories. He does not give us time to practice signing with each other. He signed way too fast and is hard to follow, he is a harsh grader and you end up teaching yourself most of the time. Beware.