Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies)?? (1 Viewer)

[PhiL]

hey im interested in doing this course next year but i dont really have any idea of what its about...

Is it that different from a commerce degree and also what other aspects does it involve ie. do you have to do any sciences? and can you do history within in it.
Cheers

 

[Toodulu]

hello!
yeh i'm in first year com lib, it's heaps radsome

it's a commerce degree but heaps more flexible. you still do 2 commerce majors, and you can choose to do a 3rd one from commerce, arts or science. the reason you can do this is because it's a 4yr degree, and you won't have to do the compulsory 1st year units that straight commerce students have to take. (accounting, econometrics, economics and information systems) basically you look at what majors you might be interested in taking, and just do the junior units for them. ie. you won't have to touch book keeping accounting unless you want to major in it

the advantage of having a 4 year degree is that it allows you to undertake further study in countries like the US or japan as their prerequisite is a 4 year degree cos that's the system them have. it also means you get to take at least 4 arts (that includes history and languages, sociology etc) and 2 science units (includes psychology)

 

[Toodulu]

oh there are no restrictions with this degree as long as you study enough units from each faculty.. it's really good if you want a commerce degree but with a bit more variety and more choice
there is only one unit that you have to take, and it's a communications/writing unit. i'm doing that now and it's pretty good and really useful especially if you want to do history or government etc units. you go 2 hours a week, hand in 2 essays (the first one is about pornography), give a seminar about anything you want, do some exercises and stuff like that, and there isn't a final exam.

 

[PhiL]

Thanks for that.
The thing is i dont do any science at school at the moment and i cant stand the subjects - ie chem, physics, ees, biology. Is that a major problem or can you kinda get around that

 

[PhiL]

anyone?? I need to know before thursday before uac have to go in. I really hate science so I'm just wondering if you HAVE to do it or if you can get around it.

 

[xiao1985]

anyone?? I need to know before thursday before uac have to go in. I really hate science so I'm just wondering if you HAVE to do it or if you can get around it.

register with uac first.. u can always change ur preference before the main round offer (or the cut off date, which if i recall, is not until jan next year)...

 

[sif not 99]

the compulsorary subject is random and fucking annoying.

im doing it atm as well it sucks big time such a waste of time, apart from that the degree is pretty kewl.

Which seminar are u in toodulu?

 

[snakeoils]

is anyone keeping up to date with that bloody journal thing? grr, i wish id done it every week like we are meant to...

 

[Toodulu]

i'm in tuesday 10am
and yeh i haven't done the journal... i keep meaning to do it but it's too much of a pain. i'm going to have to make it all up in wk13
i'm going to be so stressed out about having to do the seminar and the 2nd essay
how did you guys go in the porno essay?


oh and phil, you will have to take 2 science units. but you should note that the science faculty covers heeaps of stuff, not just laboratory science. like psychology is a really popular choice for students in this degree, and there is no lab work in it. there is also maths and info systems stuff that would be useful for your commerce degree.

 

[snakeoils]

i got a distinction in porn... hehe... thats one to tell the parents!


ive got my seminar presentation next week... i kinda wish id done it earlier now, but oh well... hopefully i'll be awake enough to do it!

 

[Toodulu]

i got a HD, great reflection on my research skills haha
yeh i've got my seminar next week as well and i've only done like a little bit of reading and no real work