Columbia College Core · Columbia University
Taken Fall 2020. Hard-working professor who cares about her students. I got a low-end grade for Essay 1 but attended office hours every week since then to practice close-reading. My close-reading skills improved, and I aced Essay 2. Readings: Rankine, Claudia, Citizen: An American Lyric (Greywolf Press) Homer, Iliad (Chicago, tr. Lattimore) Sappho, If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho (Vintage, tr. Carson) Homer, Odyssey (Norton, tr. Emily Wilson) New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4th ed.) Aeschylus, Oresteia (Aeschylus II, Chicago, tr. Lattimore) Suzan-Lori Parks, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Theater Communications Group) Plato, Symposium (Hackett, tr. Nehemas, Woodruff) Virgil, Aeneid (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum) Ovid, Metamorphoses (Penguin, tr. David Raeburn) ~JW CC'24
2 Discussion Posts 5 Quizzes (10%) Essay 1 (10%) Midterm (15%) Essay 2 (20%) Final Exam (25%) Participation Statement (20%)
Not the easiest lit hum professor (grading is generous but assignments particularly the midterm seemed a bit harder than other classes) but worth it because classes are awesome
Love her so much she puts so much effort into teaching and is clearly brilliant. Also very invested in students' success and getting to know us all individually and helping us all get something out of the class.
The average lithum workload. No more no less
Deserves a gold nugget and not that terrible review left by someone that probably just did badly. One of Columbia's hidden gems.
2 papers, 1 short in class presentation, 1 participation statement, midterm, final The same as any Lithum class honestly (so a lot) but it's not her fault
Nassime is truly the best Lithum professor I could have asked for. Not only did she actually teach me how to close read and write an analytical essay, but she made class interesting, is the most approachable professor I had all year, is hella accessible, and goes out of her way to help. You will actually learn to read and write (you'd be surprised that you may not have known how bc lol I didnt). She gives helpful comments (albeit a lot). She's also a Dante Scholar so you will enjoy reading Inferno with her. The only bad review on here HAS to be from someone that got a grade they didn't like and couldn't handle that. Nassime is an awesome instructor and so fair in grading.
2 papers, a participation statement, and a short class presentation Midterm and Final It's a lot of reading but that's not her fault
She's the literal best Lithum professor I could have asked for. She actually teaches how to close read and leaves helpful (albeit a lot) comments on papers. She's super accessible and will always be available to answer your questions. She identifies meaning in the texts that you never even noticed or considered (even if you've read it) and helps you do the same. She's a Dante scholar and just got her PhD so you're going to love reading Inferno with her. The one bad review on here HAS to be from someone who got a bad grade and couldn't handle it because Nassime is a wonderful instructor and fair in her grading. I wouldn't take this class with anyone else.