B Comm with interest in psych (1 Viewer)

[klaw]

Hello, I am a recent HSC graduate interested in pursuing a commerce related job (accounting/finance) in the future but have a personal interest in psychology. I have done some research on how I can study psych and commerce together and have looked at the options of studying psych through general education studies while doing a commerce degree or combining a commerce degree with arts/soc sci/sci but there are still many questions that I have yet to find an answer to. It would be appreciated if you can answer some of the questions outlined below regarding this matter.


· * I do not require official qualifications or recognition for psychology as I do not intend to pursue a career related to psych (unless I become significantly more attractive to employers of accounting/finance jobs if I get those qualifications/recognition, but is that the case?)

· [FONT=&quot] * [/FONT]I have looked at the UNSW handbook but single degrees only offer 12 general studies units, and out of all the general studies units there are 21 units which I am interested in studying. I can consider leaving 9 units out, but how do psychology related general studies courses compare to a major in psychology (through arts/social science/sci, not B Psych) in relation to depth and understanding psych concepts?

·[FONT=&quot] * [/FONT]What’s the difference between B Comm/Arts, B Comm/Social Science, B Comm/Science if I intend to major in psychology and primarily focus on psychology for my non-business related degree?

·[FONT=&quot] * [/FONT]Since I can only have one single commerce-related major with B Comm/Sci, does that make me LESS employable for accounting/finance related jobs? I understand that majoring in maths or something with my science degree will help with those types of jobs but I am solely interested in psychology for the science component of my degree and I’m not really interested in HR or marketing related jobs. Does doing something like B Commerce (Accounting)/B Science (Psychology) make me less employable for accounting/finance related jobs because I have less qualifications due to only having one commerce major?

* Also, I really hate sciences like physics/chem and have had difficulty grasping phys/chem. concepts in high school, will I have to do non-psych related science subjects if I do B Comm/Sci? Am I likely to have difficulty grasping psych concepts also if I struggled with phys/chem. in high school?

·[FONT=&quot] * [/FONT]Another problem is that with a UAI of 92.9 , I probably narrowly missed out on getting straight into B Comm at UNSW. Is it harder to transfer to B Comm/Sci or B Comm with B Eco/Sci, B Eco/Arts or B Eco/Soc Sci than B Eco alone? (As in are the subjects generally considered harder thus making it harder to adequate marks for transfer)

·[FONT=&quot] * [/FONT]In high school, I have had difficulty grasping science concepts and disliked subjects such as english, history or geography but find business/eco related concepts interesting, easy to understand and straightforward, My maths also isn’t bad and I don’t mind it although I don’t have a deep interest in it. That being said, and after considering all the above, what option do you recommend I take? Thank you for your time, I think this is definitely my longest post yet! :O

 

[klaw]

Also, I'm interested in learning 1-2 languages that aren't offered as a general education course if that has any effect on what degree I should choose

 

[blackfriday]

you sound like someone who would be better off in a com/arts double degree. if you're prepared to go full-fee, consider com (liberal studies). with your uai, im not sure whether you will get into commerce on hecs at unsw or usyd.

the subjects in first year for econ and com and exactly the same so you have nothing to worry about. if you do alright (maintain credit average or higher) you shouldnt have too many problems transferring to commerce for second year.

 

[klaw]

Hmm... I just noticed on the Comm/Arts handbook page that psych is listed as an area of specialisation but not listed under arts majors. Does that mean that I won't be able to major in psych with my arts degree?

Also, are B Eco subjects generally considered easier than B Eco/Arts, B Eco/Sci and B Eco/Social Science? This will affect my chances of transferring to commerce.

 

[Capitalist]

I'm lazy (and it's late) and I didn't read your entire post.

If you want to do commerce and psychology, then BCom/BSc is the way to go.

If you want to do a language, you can easily do it as a gen-ed (if it's offered) or do a language course in the holidays.

 

[blackfriday]

psych can be taken as a second major in arts, but you have to do an arts major first. unsw econ/arts program allows you to do a quadruple major. and arts/socsci are ARTS subjects and by definition (and arrogance) are easier than commerce subjects. you can't do econ/sci.

 

[sx4daboiz]

University of Wollongong has a Commerce/Psychology combined degree, I think the cut-off is 92

 

[phrred]

comm/arts allows 4 majors which would allow u 2 do psych+lang in arts
or at unsw u can prob do com/sci+ dip.lang which is just a major in a lang