HSE invites everyone to take university-wide electives. Which universities can you get into as a free student How to become a free student at the Academy of Arts
Before the revolution, the institute of auditors was extremely popular in Russia. They could be found in almost any educational institution in the country. These were people who, like ordinary students, go to lectures, take notes, gain knowledge. True, they did not take exams and did not defend their theses, they did not receive documents on their education - except for a certificate. For example, the poet Nikolai Nekrasov was poor and could not afford to study at St. Petersburg University. Therefore, he was a free listener. In general, even in the first years of the USSR, all citizens who had reached the age of 16 could also attend universities, however, this form was soon abolished - evening departments and correspondence faculties, educational programs appeared.
The idol of millions, the creator of Apple Corporation Steve Jobs was also a free listener, having studied for a year at Reed College in Portland, the future IT genius officially dropped out of school, but continued to attend lectures at his own discretion.
Interestingly, there are a lot of free listeners in Germany. True, lectures there are attended not by poor young men with burning eyes, but mainly by pensioners. They pay a small contribution of about 80-100 euros per semester in order to diversify their leisure time.
In modern Russia, it is also possible, in principle, to become a free student - although, for obvious reasons, universities are in no hurry to advertise this type of activity. And often the privilege of gaining knowledge is reserved only for those who are already students. For example, at St. Petersburg State University, a person who studies at the Faculty of Philology can freely attend lectures at any other faculties. Students assure that no additional payments and approvals are needed. The exception is practice. Learning without spending, for example, a second or third language, will not work.
In the country's main university - Moscow State University - you can also become a free student. As a rule, attendance at certain lectures is agreed with representatives of the dean's office, a paper is handed over to the security post that a free listener is allowed into the educational building on certain days with a passport. At the Russian State University for the Humanities, free listeners are generally welcomed and no obstacles are put in their way - anyone who wants to can attend lectures. True, the troubles with obtaining passes to the university have to be solved by yourself.
In Yekaterinburg, some universities give the right to attend lectures to those who are not students. But, basically, for money - universities calculate how much it costs, for example, to listen to 40 hours, issue an invoice to the applicant, and he already decides whether the game is worth the candle. This is practiced at USUE. And in UrFU, as well as in the capital's universities, they are ready to let everyone take lectures. There, too, future free students negotiate with the heads of departments and deans, issue passes and, hiding in the back rows of the audience, gain knowledge. Basically, at lectures on humanitarian areas - history, art criticism, journalism.
In a word, it is possible to get a university education without passing the exam and without spending money in Russia. True, it is not clear what to do with the documents - not only a diploma, but even certificates of the course taken in the country's universities, alas, they do not issue. So a reasonable question arises - what is more important and necessary now? To be truly educated? Or still get the treasured crusts?
A free student is a student who has the opportunity to freely attend university classes without being officially enrolled and without the right to receive a diploma. In the West, certificates are issued for lectures and courses, but in Russian universities, most likely, you will not receive anything other than knowledge itself.
In our country, the institute of volunteers was popular in pre-revolutionary times, but now it has fallen into decay. Most Russian universities reasonably refer to the fact that the very concept of "free student" in the modern educational legislation of the country simply does not exist. I applied to MGIMO, RUDN University, Russian State Linguistic University, Pleshka, Baumanka, and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology — and they all deny access to outside students. And yet, I managed to find several universities, which, with perseverance and a certain skill, you can infiltrate as a free listener.
Moscow State University
At Moscow State University, as it should be in classical universities, there is a practice of free attendance of classes, therefore, theoretically, there is an opportunity to become a wave listener, but in practice, free access to knowledge is difficult due to administrative difficulties: in order to enter Moscow State University, you must have a pass or student ID university, otherwise the guards won't let you through.
Advice: you need to decide which lectures you want to attend (at which faculty, which department, at what time) and send your request to the mail of the selected faculty. The success of the undertaking depends both on the benevolence of the head of the department and on the loyalty of the corps guards. If at the department you are answered with consent, ask its employees to write a letter for security with the following content: “Department such and such asks to let (full name + passport data) pass on such and such days, at such and such time, to such and such an audience.” Always have your passport with you and try to get the phone numbers of the laboratory assistants of the department so that in case of difficulties they can meet you at the entrance.
High School of Economics
The Higher School of Economics has special disciplines available to everyone — university-wide electives. You need to sign up for them on time, then you will have the opportunity to attend courses on leadership strategy, and on historical conflictology, and on the basics of web design. There is also a special option for applicants — students of preparatory courses at HSE can attend some first-year lectures. And for those who then enter the university, these lectures will be counted in advance.
But attending any classes of a particular faculty is not observed in mass practice.
Advice: if you have a specific request and you clearly know which lectures you would like to attend, you can try to negotiate the conditions for attending classes with the administration of the faculty.
RSUH
At the Russian State University for the Humanities, free listeners are welcome, so anyone can attend lectures for free. True, you will have to solve the problem of the pass yourself - no one will be puzzled by this especially for you.
Advice: the university administration advises to get a pass either through friends or by contacting the admissions office.
VGIK
There is a fairly strict access system here (students have special cards for passing through the turnstile), but for those who really want to get inside, in order to at least briefly be in the company of potential cameramen, directors, screenwriters and actors, there is a way out. Most of the classes are in small groups, and you will not get to them, but you are welcome to film screenings for the entire university.
Advice: in the autumn, when the access cards were not yet made for all newcomers, it is quite possible to go inside with a group of other students, showing the guard from afar something resembling a student one.
Ekaterinburg, July 16 (New Day - New Region, Ekaterina Norseeva) - In addition to full-time, part-time and evening forms of education, there are also so-called free students. These are people who, like ordinary students, go to classes, take lecture notes, and gain knowledge. True, they do not pass exams, do not write term papers and do not defend theses. In fact, almost a full-fledged education, only without crusts at the exit. However, this is in theory. Today, when the per capita principle of funding universities is applied in Russian education, the situation is somewhat different.
As the correspondent of NDNews.ru reports, before the revolution in Russia, volunteers could be found at all universities in the country. For example, the poet Nikolai Nekrasov, who could not afford to study at St. Petersburg University, was a free listener. In the early years of the USSR, all citizens over the age of 16 could also attend universities, however, this form was soon abolished - evening departments and correspondence faculties appeared. By the way, the idol of millions, the creator of Apple Corporation, Steve Jobs, was also a free listener, after studying for a year at Reed College in Portland, the future IT genius officially dropped out of school, but continued to attend lectures at his own discretion. Currently, free listeners are most common in Germany - there lectures are attended in this capacity, mainly by pensioners. They pay a small fee of about 100 euros per semester and receive knowledge.
In modern Russia, those who want to become a free student will have to work hard to find a university that is ready to accept an unusual student. For metropolitan universities, this is, in principle, a common practice, although slightly modified. For example, at St. Petersburg State University, a person who studies at the faculty of journalism can freely attend lectures at any other faculties. No additional payments or approvals are required. The exception is practical classes, for example, in foreign languages.
In the main university of the country - Moscow State University - you can also become a free student. As a rule, attendance at certain lectures is agreed with representatives of the dean's office, a paper is handed over to the security post that a free listener is allowed into the educational building on certain days with a passport. At the Russian State University for the Humanities, free listeners are generally welcomed and no obstacles are put in their way - anyone who wants to can attend lectures. True, the troubles with obtaining passes to the university have to be solved by yourself.
As for Yekaterinburg, the situation here is much sadder. If in the capital's universities, where the flow of students is much larger, they look at freestyle wrestlers through their fingers, then in the administrations of the Ural universities everything is strict.
As NDNews.ru was informed in the Ural State University of Railway Transport, such a form is not provided at the university. " Why? There is simply no request from the consumer. If it appears, it is necessary to analyze the possibilities of the university”, - said the head of the educational department Marina Oskina to the agency.
In addition, USUPS is not yet ready to let free listeners go to classes even for money. “If you sign a contract, then for what? Why take money? Keep a record or not? How to pay for such work of teachers with such students? Just run to the university and let him walk? This is also not in order. But it is also impossible to do such training on a free basis. Imagine there are 25 people in a group, and the audience is designed for 25 people. Where to put 26 free auditors? Another example is the work of the security service. Admission to the university is carried out with passes. And on what basis to launch a free listener? Who will be responsible for it? There are different forms of education: self-education, external studies, correspondence courses, additional educational programs and all sorts of courses. In addition, higher education is not compulsory, and with the development of technology, you can engage in self-education outside the classroom. I don’t see any problems here,” summed up the interlocutor of the agency.
Meanwhile, her colleagues from USUE think a little differently - in an economic university they prefer to make a profit from everything, and therefore there is some kind of volunteer student at the university. “In its pure form, we do not practice this, we do not advertise, they say, please come. But if someone wants to listen to some lectures on their own, to go to some teacher - no problem. We have a center for parallel additional education. This is all done on a reimbursable basis. The price, in principle, is comparable to regular education - the cost is calculated based on the volume of services that are provided to a particular student. Say, an ordinary student receives everything in a complex - 50 disciplines, term papers, a diploma, and if you scatter all this for reporting, you get about the same cost, ”said Maxim Maramygin, director of the USUE Institute of Finance and Law, to NDNews.ru.
According to him, most often those who are already university students apply for listening to individual lectures. They want to listen to some additional course, to learn something in a more in-depth format.
At the Ural Federal University, the concept of students is mainly applied to foreigners who are not enrolled as students, but for now they are simply “pulling up” Russian. However, there are still free students in the sense in question at the university. So, "their" students can attend lectures of some faculties for free. “I am studying for a master's degree in journalism, without having a bachelor's degree in journalism - I studied engineering for five years. And it is clear that I am missing some basics. Therefore, in agreement with the dean's office, I went to some lectures with junior students. I sat down at the last desks and just listened, ”Dmitry Benemansky, press secretary of the university, told NDNews.ru.
In a word, by agreement with the heads of departments, it is possible to attend lectures as a free listener. This practice is most often found among historians and art historians, and we are talking not only about those who are listed as students of UrFU. Other people can also visit the university. And for free. “If we talk about academic lectures, then this is possible and such cases happen, but it all depends on the teacher. Often, lecturers are wary of “not their own” students, so this point also needs to be discussed with them, ”added the agency’s interlocutor.
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Free birds on bird rights
Volunteers are different. Sometimes it's almost students. They go not only to lectures, but also to practical classes. They can even take exams. And walk! However, they do not have the right to be expelled from the university. Because only students are expelled - if they are guilty, of course.
There are other volunteers - they want to sneak into a lecture at the university of their dreams, but they don’t count on being, say, enrolled in a student library. Of course, no one has the right to exclude them from the university. But just don't let it in - please.
Many people, in whose life there was an experience of studying as a volunteer, managed to show themselves as real professionals. The ethnographer, anthropologist and traveler in the south-eastern expanses of the Earth Nikolai Miklukho-Maclay, as well as the physiologists Kliment Timiryazev and Alexei Ukhtomsky, were volunteers at St. Petersburg University; the physiologist Ivan Sechenov visited the medical faculty of Moscow University in the same way. The inventor of radio, Guglielmo Marconi, was a volunteer at the University of Bologna.
There are many artists among the well-known auditors. Especially popular among them was the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. It was visited by the romantic painter Vasily Tropinin, the landscape painter Arkhip Kuindzhi, the author of historical canvases Heinrich Semiradsky, the creator of bright and colorful images Philip Malyavin, members of the World of Art association Alexander Benois and Leon Bakst. The same academy accepted sculptors Pyotr Klodt (the horses on the Anichkov Bridge in St. Petersburg are his work) and Mark Antokolsky, whose delicate sculptures Muscovites and guests of the capital can see in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, as volunteer students. By the way, it was also possible to study art as a volunteer in Moscow - the craftswoman for carving silhouettes, Elizaveta Sergeevna Kruglikova, studied on such rights at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
The knights of the word did not lag behind in their free education - poets Fyodor Tyutchev (the verbal department of Moscow University), Nikolai Nekrasov (philological faculty of St. Petersburg University), the classic of Romanian literature Mihai Eminescu (a number of humanitarian courses at the University of Vienna), Sasha Cherny (Heidelberg University), Sergey Yesenin (Historical and Philosophical Department of the Moscow City People's University named after A. L. Shanyavsky); prose writers Nikolay Leskov (Kyiv University), author of "Essays of the Bursa" Nikolay Pomyalovsky (Petersburg University), Antoine de Saint-Exupery (department of architecture of the School of Fine Arts in Paris); the first Pushkinist Pavel Annenkov (Petersburg University).
The path to art is usually “from the contrary” - for example, if mathematics is not given, you willy-nilly start to study something else. But the composer Mily Balakirev was not like that - he was not afraid of the fate of a volunteer at the Faculty of Mathematics of Kazan University.
In the 20th century, it was mostly actors who managed to become volunteers - Vladimir Etush and Veniamin Smekhov (Boris Shchukin Theater School), Andrei Rostotsky (VGIK), Fandorin Ilya Noskov (LGITMiK named after N.K. Cherkasov).
Well, how not to remember the computer revolutionary Steve Jobs - one of the main inspirers of the modern generation! He nevertheless recovered at Reed College in the American Portland - and also a volunteer.
History with geography
Normal university life is largely based on the notion of academic freedoms—for example, the freedom to research or professorships to express their original views. And in general, student years sometimes seem like real freemen - there is time to get together with friends and have fun, the working day “from 9 to 6” is still unfamiliar to many, so why, they say, to top it all off, let people from the street go to lectures? They are interested, they also want to learn ...
In different historical and geographical circumstances, this issue was resolved in different ways. In pre-revolutionary Russia, as you have already understood from the above-mentioned names, it was largely positive.
But if in relation to young men the opportunity to attend classes at a particular university was discussed individually, then women were already considered as a class: they can all cross the university threshold even with such rights - or not. In the early 1860s, the majority on the council of Moscow University did not want to see women on the student benches. At St. Petersburg University, the council turned out to be more liberal, at Kazan University it was even more liberal, and in Kyiv and Kharkov women were given the rights of students and even allowed to acquire academic degrees. And when, a decade later, a number of Higher Women's Courses were opened across the country (gradually acquiring an increasingly university character), the status of a volunteer existed for some time on them.
Until October 1917, the rules for admission to volunteers could be determined by the educational institution itself. So, the Moscow Archaeological Institute received quite a lot of volunteers, and they could take exams. Education was paid. And after the revolution, anyone who was 16 years old could choose a university to go there as a volunteer and at the same time pay nothing. (Russians on the other side of the USSR could sometimes study in the same status - for example, Russian emigrants at the Theological Institute of St. Vladimir in Harbin, China.) But in the end, the system of evening and correspondence education that developed in the USSR replaced study by volunteers.
In modern Russia, there are universities that recruit volunteers according to their own rules. The Independent Moscow University (Moscow), focused on in-depth mathematical education (the diploma of this educational institution is recognized by Harvard), allows volunteers to attend classes and allows them to pass the introductory session. And the University of Practical Psychology, also located in the capital, organized a special paid stream for volunteers, where you can study, including in absentia, as well as take exams and write a thesis. True, such a student is not supposed to have a state diploma, but if he can transfer to student status, he will also receive the rights due to students.
Abroad, the picture differs from country to country, from university to university. For example, in the universities of Great Britain and the USA there are departments for volunteers, in Germany the percentage of volunteers has recently increased, and in Poland, which is closer to us, the institute of volunteers is alive and well - and if an applicant did not get a student place, he can still attend classes, visit laboratories, borrow textbooks from the library, and take exams. Nevertheless, such a “hearer is free” does not have a student ID, and the credit system does not apply to him - the points scored, he cannot draw up an individual curriculum and provide academic leave. When a year of this semi-student existence has passed, the question of including a free listener in the lists of students is being considered.
If audition is prohibited somewhere, then most often this happens when the rest of the students pay for their studies, and the one who would like to become a volunteer did not pay for the course.
Will they let you listen to lectures
The Russian Law on Education does not mention volunteers. (Is there a USE? So take the USE and do what you are supposed to do.) But they are “sometimes seen” – either in one university or another. Ghost students! So do they manage to get there or not?
In addition to the law, the very order of the life of the university is often not designed for free students. Only students and teachers enter the educational buildings without problems (unless it's an open day, of course). So, probably, you will be caught at the door of the university and sent home. And yet, the issue is resolved in each particular university in its own way: somewhere there are no volunteer students as a class, somewhere you can ask about the topics of lectures that interest you by contacting the university, and eventually come to an agreement with the teaching staff, and somewhere even write an application in the entire form, and at the end of the course receive a certificate.
Those wishing to become volunteers would be most interested in watching the natural learning process from the back of the classroom. And, since there is not always such an opportunity, you can consider other proposals of universities - for example, open lectures. They are arranged on purpose and sometimes are outside the context of the course studied by the bulk of the students, but everyone can come to many of these lectures - and feel the atmosphere of the university, where you may soon enter.
Another thing is that today you can feel the atmosphere of universities located anywhere in the world without leaving your home.
Forecasts
Will the institution of volunteers survive in its original full-time version, if universities today tend to simply post lectures online, and the number of subscribers to many of their channels on YouTube and other resources is huge; if the best universities in the world unite in the Coursera project, and universities around the world - in the OpenCourseWare project, if it has become customary for university knowledge to be freely shared on the Internet? Everything is clear with students: they also need a diploma! They will still go to college. But mass recruitment into remote volunteers jeopardizes your desire to sit at least a little on a real student bench and listen to a lecture on a real student stream - without being a student. Stay, they say, at home, launch a video of the university - and arrange free hearings for yourself as much as you like. So you will have career guidance with preparatory courses, and you don’t need to go anywhere. And in general, now there is a lot of any information - I bought whatever textbook you want and do it yourself.
Self-education is a good thing. Today it is considered an even more worthy occupation than studying “in the ranks” of students: after all, a self-taught person is better motivated and he personally decides what exactly he will teach, and the student is content with what he is asked. However, a supporter of self-education becomes too attached to his own achievements and therefore often slows down. But the student easily puts aside the next solved control work - one after another - and as a result, he moves faster in mastering the course! Therefore, there is always a reason to become either a full-time student, or at least an auditor.
In general, it is not necessary to want to become a volunteer. It's good to just think about this phenomenon. After all, there were and are people who do not attach much importance to a diploma, but respect knowledge so much that they want to receive it, even if not in the general student stream, but modestly sitting on the edge in the classroom. It makes sense to try to achieve this craving for knowledge in any case - it will come in handy when you become a student!
0+There is no “auditor” status at Moscow State University, but there are many open public lectures, seminars and conferences. Lectures are held during the academic year, usually monthly, on the last Tuesday of the month. They are designed for everyone: researchers, teachers, students, graduate students, secondary school teachers, high school students. To visit them, it is enough to take an identity document with you and show it to the guards. Also, a significant part of the courses of the country's most reputable university can be found online. However, if you really want to attend a particular course in person, you should negotiate with the administration of the relevant faculty - usually in such cases they meet halfway and issue a pass.
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The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology is also doing a lot to popularize education. Firstly, you can find recorded lectures (sometimes even with notes) on the university website in the "Lectorium" section. Secondly, MIPT has a special Reader project, within which open lectures are broadcast online. The surest way to learn about upcoming lectures in a timely manner is to follow the updates on the site. The registration procedure is very simple.
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This is a non-state educational institution, which is a division of the Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education. However, the lectures here are read at a fairly high level. Education is conducted as optional courses for secondary or higher education. Students are provided with a free five-year course, and you can increase or shorten this period at any time. Classes, which are held in the evenings for the convenience of university students, can be freely attended by anyone, and a volunteer who has successfully passed three exams becomes a university student with all the consequences, for example, a thesis and obtaining a diploma. By the way, this document is recognized by the leading mathematical organizations of the world.
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Another non-state educational institution invites everyone to visit an open lecture hall at a convenient time for you. It remains only to choose a lecture to your taste and interest. The schedule includes lectures, master classes and seminars. Most of them are free to enter, but some are paid. Here they will teach you how to conduct your own investigation, tell you what a modern radio station consists of or how to start a career in entertainment journalism, discuss children's and adult literature, and religion. Among the guests and lecturers are well-known journalists, writers, translators and literary critics. Find out about upcoming events
