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Are the lectures available somewhere? This is one of those courses I would love to audit.

by Entinel 4y ago

chrisseaton 4y ago
You’re going to audit their course?
- medo-bear 4y ago
  i guess he means to attend the course without participating in it
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    And like report them to someone if they don't think it's right? 'Audit' makes me think of those conspiracy theorists who harass security guards.
    - dooglius 4y ago
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit Definition 2 under the verb form
      - User23 4y ago
        I don’t know if it’s still true, but it at least used to be the case that one could ask a professor’s permission to just show up for lectures even without any formal relationship with the school.
        dooglius 4y ago
        I'm sure it's still true that you can ask! Whether it works I expect will depend on the professor.
        f1shy 4y ago
        AFAIK in many countries and universities around the world this is no problem in 90% of the cases. Good professors are more than happy to have you there. One I even asked to take the exam, and get it corrected (to test if I really learned the content). And they allowed me to do that, I got the corrected exam at the end. Of course, it was not written in any book in the university.
      - f1shy 4y ago
        Comes from latin "audire" to hear.
    - nt591 4y ago
      This might be an American term, but auditing a course is simply taking one without registering and without intent of grade or credit.
    - CyberDildonics 4y ago
      Not sure if english is your first language but you could audit language courses and get caught up.
- chucksmash 4y ago
  This is a common term (in US colleges) for "take a college course without receiving college credit." So if you're in school (or in some places just a community member) and you want to attend lectures but not do homework or tests, you would audit the class. It's probably less common now with MOOCs and everything that's available on YouTube.
papercrane 4y ago
The schedule page has links to the lecture notes and recordings of the lectures (hosted on YouTube.) It does look like a couple of the last lectures are not on YouTube, but the lecture notes look comprehensive. https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2022/cmsc430/Schedule.html https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2022/cmsc430/Schedule.html

Are the lectures available somewhere? This is one of those courses I would love to audit.

chrisseaton 4y ago

You’re going to audit their course?

medo-bear 4y ago
i guess he means to attend the course without participating in it
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  And like report them to someone if they don't think it's right? 'Audit' makes me think of those conspiracy theorists who harass security guards.
  - dooglius 4y ago
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit Definition 2 under the verb form
    - User23 4y ago
      I don’t know if it’s still true, but it at least used to be the case that one could ask a professor’s permission to just show up for lectures even without any formal relationship with the school.
      - dooglius 4y ago
        I'm sure it's still true that you can ask! Whether it works I expect will depend on the professor.
      - f1shy 4y ago
        AFAIK in many countries and universities around the world this is no problem in 90% of the cases. Good professors are more than happy to have you there. One I even asked to take the exam, and get it corrected (to test if I really learned the content). And they allowed me to do that, I got the corrected exam at the end. Of course, it was not written in any book in the university.
    - f1shy 4y ago
      Comes from latin "audire" to hear.
  - nt591 4y ago
    This might be an American term, but auditing a course is simply taking one without registering and without intent of grade or credit.
  - CyberDildonics 4y ago
    Not sure if english is your first language but you could audit language courses and get caught up.
chucksmash 4y ago
This is a common term (in US colleges) for "take a college course without receiving college credit." So if you're in school (or in some places just a community member) and you want to attend lectures but not do homework or tests, you would audit the class. It's probably less common now with MOOCs and everything that's available on YouTube.

papercrane 4y ago

The schedule page has links to the lecture notes and recordings of the lectures (hosted on YouTube.) It does look like a couple of the last lectures are not on YouTube, but the lecture notes look comprehensive. https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2022/cmsc430/Schedule.html https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2022/cmsc430/Schedule.html