Reviews of professor Julian Costa

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He had a sarcastic but funny tone to him, very educated and knew what the hell he was saying. Very smart with his words, and an easy grader as long as you just do your work. Genuinely cannot see why anyone would dislike him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Fully unaccessible outside of class, refused to answer any email. Very condescending regarding any difficulties anyone may have had with public speaking. Overall, this class was a very negative experience with very confusing and poorly communicated instructuions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a really good public speaking professor. If you have stage frighten or having trouble speaking you should take him, but be aware that you will have to speak in the class multiple times and give speeches. If you get to know him out of class he is a genuine and caring type of person.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Costa should not have as many bad reviews as he should. I think most of the really negative reviews are from students who did not try at all and then complain that he is a bad professor. He is very up front about what he wants from his students, he allows speech retakes. He doesn't respond to emails, but besides that he is pretty good.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He stopped teaching a few weeks in and just talked about irrelevant things unrelated to the class. Only grades certain parts of your speech. Gives weird topics for speeches. Made everyone give a real eulogy. Makes fun of students for being slightly late but arrives 5 minutes late. Once someone arrived late and he got really mad and started cursing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Do not take Professor Costa. He is literally so rude and inconsiderate of people's outside circumstances, and won't let you email him (I missed a speech day because of mental problems and I emailed him about it; next time I saw him in class he said he deleted my email). He made us give a eulogy and just made us all feel really uncomfortable.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really cool guy, took him at ccny he always made the lectures extremely fun and he was kind to everyone, I would most definitely take him again, I always sucked at public speaking but he made me feel more comfortable about it, which helped a lot

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Creepy. Terrible. One girl had to switch out because he targeted her and made her feel so uncomfortable. He made her sit up front for no reason and everyone in class felt weird about it. I made this post last semester but it got deleted. Weird. PLEASE SWITCH OUT.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Would not recommend taking him for any course. Extremely hard to get ahold of outside of class and likes to make a spectacle of trying to email him. Very condescending and rude towards students. I will never be taking a lecture with him ever again.