Ilaria Brancoli Busdraghi
Ilaria is an amazing professor who cares a lot about her students. I always try and take Italian with her because she makes it so enjoyable. There is a lot of homework, but exams are easy with lenient grading. I would take any class she teaches.
This class has been a cool transition into more content based language learning. Though we still review grammar (which is much needed), we also focus on the culture of Italy through readings/videos and response questions/class discussions.
If you are planning to take Italian at any point in your undergrad career, take it with Ilaria, she's the best prof I've had on campus and she is so sweet and you can tell she cares about the well being of her students the most. She loves coffee and her cat, but she also loves Italian grammar. 10/10 would do it all over again just for her.