OH. MY. GOSH. Borromeo is by far THE BEST Italian teacher of the bunch. You have to take her if you have any interest in the language. She is super clear with explanations and really cares about / gets to know her students personally. Every class is interesting, fun, and different. I want to stay in touch with her even after the class ended.

Great lady! Fun class, easy and she is really helpful. Listened to a lot of Italian music in her class!

She was super sweet, you will need to do a decent amount of studying outside of class because the lectures don't fully prepare you for the exams and quizzes in my opinion. But it is an easy class.

Professor Borromeo is a kind woman and clearly passionate about teaching but this class was just not it! She assigns multiple projects (individual/group) and her feedback on any work you turn in does not help you improve at all. You learn more from reading the textbook than her presentations. Would not take her class to fulfill the GE requirement.

Grading criteria was unclear, often went on tangents in Italian and expected beginner students to understand, quizzes were strangly formatted, poor feedback on projects, and the structure of the course was subpar.

She has a serious issue with organization to the point where nearly every single day students would come to class complaining. Her documents are inconsistent, the websites/textbooks she uses are chaotic and don't function half the time... etc. Additionally, she literally never goes over pronunciation and just kinda expects students to know it???