Timeline for What does “auditing a course” mean?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 24, 2015 at 7:46 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | PS: by people in the above I mean the general public. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 7:30 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | @paulgarrett: unfortunately it's one of the many opportunities that, at least in my country, are seldom taken, even by people who would have the time to attend (another one is that people rarely uses the university libraries). Room capacity can be an issue in some courses, but only if there were a significant number of auditors. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 2:19 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @paulgarrett Why give it away for free when you can charge for it? Most American universities are full to the brim in many of their undergraduate courses. A graduate course or an upper division, non-required undergraduate course may have plenty of seats available, but for others there may literally be no chair to park their butts in. I've taught courses in lecture halls with a capacity of 250 and every last one was occupied by a (non-auditing) student. Those paying for a seat take priority over those just chilling out. | |
| Aug 24, 2015 at 0:44 | comment | added | paul garrett | The point that a certain version of "auditing" is granted by law in public universities is indeed very interesting! This is a good social-political feature. It is slightly obscure to me why U.S. universities often have such a violently opposite attitude, even while k-12 education is mandated to be universal. | |
| Aug 23, 2015 at 11:15 | history | answered | Massimo Ortolano | CC BY-SA 3.0 |