The College Board will offer the Italian Advanced Placement exam again this year, after stopping the program during the 2009-2010 school year. Although Whitman won’t offer an AP Italian class next year, students will be able to take the exam for college credit.

Whitman decided not to offer the class because not enough students were interested, and Italian teacher Isabella Kyser already had enough classes to teach, said Pamela Garcia, foreign language resource teacher.

The College Board first offered the exam in the spring of 2006, but suspended it last year because of a lack of funding and student interest. Only 2,300 students took the exam in 2009, and the exam lost $1.5 million a year, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Most students who took the class were native Italian speakers, Garcia said.

“Students can still take the AP exam at the end of the year,” she said. “We’re just not offering it.”