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i guess he means to attend the course without participating in it
by medo-bear 4y ago
i guess he means to attend the course without participating in it
- chrisseaton 4y agoAnd 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 agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audit Definition 2 under the verb form
- User23 4y agoI 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 agoI'm sure it's still true that you can ask! Whether it works I expect will depend on the professor.
- f1shy 4y agoAFAIK 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 agoComes from latin "audire" to hear.
- nt591 4y agoThis might be an American term, but auditing a course is simply taking one without registering and without intent of grade or credit.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoNot sure if english is your first language but you could audit language courses and get caught up.