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The article deals with the features and capabilities of the humanitarian disciplines as the tool for the formation of students' professional independence. The socio-philosophical and psychological-pedagogical aspects of professional independence of students of non-humanitarian universities are studied. The problem of the formation of educational and professional independence of students is presented at the theoretical and practical level. The research methodology is based on active and interactive elements and forms and a competence-activity approach. The authors refer to the study of S.I. Morozova on the nature, structure, levels of formation of educational and professional independence (EPI) of university students. EPI is an integral quality of a student’s personality, characterized by the ability to organize educational and professional activities aimed at mastering future profession and general cultural competencies on their own. It is considered that qualitative formation of the general cultural competencies among students of non-humanitarian universities, i.d. the ability to independently acquire knowledge, skills, the need for self-education is possible through humanitarian disciplines, organized self-educational activities of the students. Self-educational activity is an activity means student focused on improving his/her professional competencies and personality as well. The main parameters of self-educational activities are an independent search for materials, critical thinking, vision of the problem and its solving, and the ability to self-develop. Independent student’s work is considered to be a means of forming student’s interest in continuous self-education. In the article independent work is interpreted as one of the types of the learning process and one of the forms of its organization, aimed at the formation of educational and professional independence of students and contributing to the formation of a creative self-thinking person, ready for further professional activity and continuous self-education. The authors describe the experience of using interactive and active methods and forms of forming the educational and professional independence of students of non-humanitarian universities on the example of historical and philosophical disciplines.