B Science/B Law or B Science/B Commerce

[tanna]

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Okay, is it stupid to consider this course?

It lies within two areas of interest, yet from what I can gather, there are no job opportunities that incorporate both areas of study. Is it worth it to just do it plainly for interest, and then look at careers into one of the two fields?

Plus, are there any disadvantages with going into a double degree? I'll miss out on some of my electives right? Will that make me less attractive to an employer in the end?

Is it possible that a B Science/B Commerce a more...I dunno...common (?) option?

I hope you can gather meaning from my ramblings haha :P

Thank you in advance

[lyounamu]

Originally Posted by tanna

Okay, is it stupid to consider this course?

It lies within two areas of interest, yet from what I can gather, there are no job opportunities that incorporate both areas of study. Is it worth it to just do it plainly for interest, and then look at careers into one of the two fields?

Plus, are there any disadvantages with going into a double degree? I'll miss out on some of my electives right? Will that make me less attractive to an employer in the end?

Is it possible that a B Science/B Commerce a more...I dunno...common (?) option?

I hope you can gather meaning from my ramblings haha :P

Thank you in advance

Why not?

I am also considering Commerce/Science (adv maths). They complement each other excellently if you do, say, finance from commerce and fiancial maths from science. They are many ways to combine these seemily different disciplines so that they complement each other. Or you can do them for the sake of your interest. It really might help you with employment as businesses are increasingly interested in people with variety of skills + knowledge.

[tanna]

Originally Posted by lyounamu

Why not?

I am also considering Commerce/Science (adv maths). They complement each other excellently if you do, say, finance from commerce and fiancial maths from science. They are many ways to combine these seemily different disciplines so that they complement each other. Or you can do them for the sake of your interest. It really might help you with employment as businesses are increasingly interested in people with variety of skills + knowledge.

Thanks for that

I'm quite excited now haha! Any other input?

Another question - what about the workload? I mean, I hear law is a full on course, and coupled with science... I dunno...

Does anyone do this combo?

[LordPc]

Originally Posted by tanna

Another question - what about the workload? I mean, I hear law is a full on course, and coupled with science... I dunno...

Does anyone do this combo?

law/science? nah, no one does that. you'd be the first.

I am of the opinion that picking a university course, with the intention of becoming qualified for a specific job when you graduate, is a foolish notion.

you do what you are interested in and then you pick a job once you have more knowlegde on the subject, ie, near the end of your degree.

unless your dad is a physicist and your mother a lawyer, you really have no idea what kind of job prospects you have when you finish, and trying to base decisions on this will probably lead you nowhere.

you dont have to have complimentary degrees either. a double degree should open 2 doors for you when you finish, one from either side of your degree. if the 2 sides of the double degree are opening the same door, then you should have good reason for making that choice, ie, you are certain you want to get a job in the overlap area

[Studentleader]

Some people do actuarial/law and I'm guessing alot of people do psychology and law.

Chances are if you did something like chemistry/pharmacy and law you could look very attractive to a chemical firm

[Trebla]

Originally Posted by tanna

Okay, is it stupid to consider this course?

It lies within two areas of interest, yet from what I can gather, there are no job opportunities that incorporate both areas of study. Is it worth it to just do it plainly for interest, and then look at careers into one of the two fields?

Plus, are there any disadvantages with going into a double degree? I'll miss out on some of my electives right? Will that make me less attractive to an employer in the end?

Is it possible that a B Science/B Commerce a more...I dunno...common (?) option?

I hope you can gather meaning from my ramblings haha :P

Thank you in advance

I'm doing B Science/B Commerce with my primary major in Financial Mathematics and Statistics for Science and Finance for Commerce. I basically wanted to do Financial Mathematics and Statistics to make use of my interests in mathematics and do Finance to acquire the theoretical concepts/knowledge to know how to use the maths.

Basically, finance in commerce has a lack of mathematical rigour but it provides knowledge of financial models and how markets work, whilst financial mathematics in science has a lack of background knowledge in financial markets and models but great mathematical rigour in deriving complex models. Hence the two majors complement each other very nicely.

[A Stone Monkey]

Note, you aren't a lawyer when you graduate from 'law school'; in fact, you're among the hoi polloi - or, maybe because of oh-so high academic requirements - of law degree graduates. In Australia, considering there are undergraduate law programs (both stand-alone law, and combined), and the lack of an LSAT-equivalent, it barely means that much.

In any case, BSc/LLB is a course that quite a number undertake, even if it appears to be non-synergistic. That notion is far from the truth; for example, you can become a patent/intellectual property 'lawyer' (when I use the term 'lawyer', I am most probably referring to a consultant, clerk, etc.; not Boston Legal, Law and Order barristers, attorneys-at-law, etc. (people who have actually sat and passed a jurisdiction's Bar exam)), or a lawyer, consultant, or technical specialist at a science-related firm.

Originally Posted by LordPc

law/science? nah, no one does that.

If you ever pick up a science faculty/science discipline department's prospectus from, say, the University of Sydney or the University of New South Wales, I'll bet that you'll see a combined law/science person.

Once again, there are people that do it.

Originally Posted by tanna

Another question - what about the workload? I mean, I hear law is a full on course, and coupled with science... I dunno...

Does anyone do this combo?

My boyfriend's girlfriend's mother's sister's brother's father's son's daughter's uncle's aunt's nephew's neice's pet goldfish does this, and the workload is manageable.

Most BSc/LLB have three years of a reduced first-year law course, in addition to a science component (again, reduced in comparison to a science-only degree). After science, you may wish to take a year off for honours science; if not, or after finishing honours science, you do full-law. After 5, 6, ... years, you'll graduate with both degrees.

Originally Posted by lyounamu

I am also considering Commerce/Science (adv maths). They complement each other excellently if you do, say, finance from commerce and fiancial maths from science. They are many ways to combine these seemily different disciplines so that they complement each other. Or you can do them for the sake of your interest. It really might help you with employment as businesses are increasingly interested in people with variety of skills + knowledge.

Commerce already has financial maths.

Adv. maths is more appropriate for those who wish to become code-crackers, security analysts, etc. in the long run; I don't want to be critical of you, or anything that you represent, but you perhaps shouldn't bother with it.

Originally Posted by Studentleader

Chances are if you did something like chemistry/pharmacy and law you could look very attractive to a chemical firm

There is no Pharmacy/Law. Pharmacy sets you up for community, hospital, or industrial practice. If you mean pharmaceuticals/medicinal chemistry/etc., then that's BSc/LLB, a science major within the discipline of chemistry.

You will need to be pretty decent with organic chem., I imagine.

[velox]

Um no, commerce does not have financial maths. I have done both and finance is a walk in the path compared to maths.

Actually Maths is highly renowned in industry.

[Studentleader]

Just do the science