Costello, Enrica  

When I raised my hand in class she said "See me in my office hours" When seeing her in office hours she said "You should have raised your hand in class." I had a simple question that would have taken two minutes to answer (it took her five minutes to cover in class). Her office is right across the hall from the computer lab she taught in. Once I went from the computer lab to her office during office hours and asked "Professor, can you come look at my computer lab screen? I'm stuck on one of the steps." She said "No I can't leave my office, I'm here to help students." When I came to ask a short, simple question during her office hours she said "When you are working in the lab I can come over and see what the problem is." Basically, Costello doesn't teach. She goes through things at a rapid-fire pace in class but if you have a question she won't even try to answer it or even hear what the question is. I had fellow students tell me that they can't believe how horribly she treats students who ask questions. She doesn't teach, she dictates. She only likes students who don't need to be taught...so why is she a professor?

Enrica tries really hard to be a good teacher. She records the lectures, which helped incredibly. The only problem about her recording the lectures was that she went over material extremely fast so she could keep her recording under a certain time so she could upload it to vimeo. Keep up with the journal. It will save your grade. If you need help, GO TO OFFICE HOURS. She wants to know that you care about her class. Show her that you put effort into her class and you will easily get an A.

Here's the thing: I did like Enrica. She's got fun anecdotes and a lot of experience in the graphic design industry. Some people complain that she talks too fast, but she does have recordings of her lectures and tons of resources on polylearn which I found super helpful. She can be interpreted as a little condescending, but most of the time I appreciated her honesty. Other times... she can be a little hot and cold. Something that she said she liked in an in-progress critique might be something she thinks you should've cut in the final product, and there's not much you can do to prepare for that. She also favors students that already know a lot about using photoshop and the rest of us were left in the dust sometimes. I wouldn't NOT recommend her, but just know there will be challenges.

Enrica is the worst professor I have had at Poly by far. She only values the opinions and questions of students that have little effort with the material, meaning that she simply won't teach the people that need to be taught. She is extremely full of herself, often scolding the class for her mistakes as a teacher, saying that it is our job to speak up and tell her. However, whenever someone would point these things out or ask a question they were often told to see her during office hours, after class, or to just ask the question next class. Her behavior as a professor is completely inexcusable, because she is unwilling to do her job!

Enrica loves herself and is very Italian, and she will never let you forget that either. Like any other professor, if you respect them, they will return the favor. 183 was definitely more relaxed than 182 but nonetheless most of us ended of leaving the class early anyways. If you are Italian, make sure to let her know that and bond over places in Italy where you have travelled. Also if you don't want to pursue digital animation, you are kind of fucked because she reallyyyy aims her class courses based on that profession. Good luck

What the guy/gal below said. Amen. I too took this class and have long since graduated from Poly, but I was cruising Poly Ratings for a kick and thought that I should pipe in and let you know how much of a joke this prof is.