Reviews of professor Riccardo Costa

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Nice guy and helpful with questions. Speaks in Italian often but also translates a lot of things to English. Some homework but nothing crazy, and very few, easy exams. Definitely requires the textbook.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I did well in the class, but only because of the textbook. If you asked him questions it was generally fine, but he literally would just read the textbook to us in class. It felt useless and the only reason I passed is because I studied the textbook like crazy on my own time. One good thing was how he graded. 45% was HW, which was online and easy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is very nice and if you do the homework you will do fine

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Costa is a nice guy, but he moves very fast and just reads straight from the textbook in class, which I personally found to not be too helpful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
As a freshman in level 3, he expected the class to be fluent in Italian already. I was in a class of 7 & participation mattered. Since he mainly speaks in Italian for 90% of the class, it is hard to understand instructions for assignments. I'll give him credit for it being his first time teaching. He is easy to reach outside of class for questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
One of the most intimidating Profs you will take. He chooses to speak in Italian as much as possible. Limited English makes it very hard to to take in all the information. BUT this style makes it so you need to pay attention in class. Once you get with the flow, it is one of the easiest classes in the world.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
By far, without a doubt the worst Foreign language teacher I've ever had in my entire life. This man expects a class of freshman: many of which are taking this language for a first time, to have a large general understanding of the conversational aspect of the Italian language. He does no study guides or details what tests will be on. Don't do it.