Commerce anyone?

I am thinking of doing Commerce in September,

Just looking for some advice from anyone that's doing the course,

Is there much maths involved?

ethernet

Not a commerce student myself but did a quick look at exam papers and see there are papers for algebra and calculus. I see integration, limits, Gaussian elimination, matrices and a few other things.

ethernet

ethernet wrote: »

Not a commerce student myself but did a quick look at exam papers and see there are papers for algebra and calculus. I see integration, limits, Gaussian elimination, matrices and a few other things.

Ew.

qwytre

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I am thinking of doing Commerce in September,

Just looking for some advice from anyone that's doing the course,

Is there much maths involved?

I did Commerce back in 1999. There is Maths in first year and some statistics in year 2 I think. I did pass Maths for the Leaving so I wasn't ever a top maths student but I still got through the maths course in Commerce, its not too bad really. Some of it you just learn off by heart, write it all down in the exam and forget all of it after the exam.

First Year in Commerce is quite easy, I think there were only 10 hours a week in lectures. 2nd year gets busy and 3rd year is fairly tough. But I worked hard at it so its as tough as you want it to be.

Only advice I'd say is to keep up with the work and have a balance between the study and the social life. It can be done easily but so many people leave it all to the end and try to cram it all in. Some get an average degree, some get poor degrees. But you wont get a good honours degree that way.

Me and a few of my friends at the time went on at least once a week and often twice, played soccer and football for the college in various competitions and still managed to come out with First Class Honours. It can be done if you just keep a balance.

Commerce is a good choice, you can specialise in certain areas in 2nd and 3rd year, so if you are interested in accounting or marketing or information systems or whatever you can specialise in them.

Its also a good choice if you are not too sure on what you want to do, certainly better than doing arts for the same reason. But you do need to be sure you will like or at least be able to get through the subjects.

Yeah, im still not sure as to what I want to do, ive a fairly mixed bag..

I really enjoy business thats why I was looking at commerce and with any course I WILL be working for it. Im not a waster.. I enjoy going out yeah like everybody else, but I also enjoy success.

Was also looking at corporate Law, aswell as english and history.

Any comments on the above would be brill.

Fionn MacCool

If you'e any good with computers, do Business Information Systems. No maths (not in first year anyway) and arguably a more valuable degree.

leninbenjamin

the maths in commerce is relatively light. it'll get heavier if you pick something like economics, but even then the most you'll have to worry about is solving a few difference equations. nothing like doing Financial Maths.

there's a corporate law thread as well somewhere in this forum. most who do it seem to like it, seems a decent course, as long as you are prepared to spend days on end in the libo reading case law.

if you're unsure though, i'd go for arts mself. just go around for the first few weeks sampling everything, there's enough there that you'll find something you like. can still go down a business route with economics that way, while you can try other stuff like law, IT, english, Maths etc. you'll end up having to do a masters in something either way with commerce or Arts. Having said that Commerce is pretty broad itself...

I'm repeating.. hate maths, just managed a D1 last year, amnt doing it this year.. so having to do any sort of maths.. I would be.. like KILL ME!!

I'd rather not to an ordinary arts degree..

I could have done that last year.. Plus, I don't want to be one of thousands of unemployed arts students in the country.

Ahh.. I dunnnnooo..

July = :eek:

leninbenjamin

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I'm repeating.. hate maths, just managed a D1 last year, amnt doing it this year.. so having to do any sort of maths.. I would be.. like KILL ME!!

I'd rather not to an ordinary arts degree..

I could have done that last year.. Plus, I don't want to be one of thousands of unemployed arts students in the country.

Ahh.. I dunnnnooo..

July = :eek:

the good thing about an Arts degree (possibly the only thing :pac:) is that it's so broad in spectrum. it never goes into the finer detail you might like at NUIG, but it offers opportunities in a raft of different areas, allowing you to get a broad feel for many things. as an example, one of my IT lecturers' degree is in history. as another; 3 years ago i was thinking about doing a very specific course. in fact at the time I was hell bent on doing it. but for some odd reason I didn't put it down on the CSO and did arts instead. best thing i ever did. i know now i would not have been happy doing that other course, and now my career is taking me in a completely different direction, one i would never have even considered had i not done Arts. even though the degree itself is basically toilet paper i wouldn't have it any other way. (btw, a commerce degree isn't any more valuable from talking to friends who've done it. it'll be the quilted kind really).

and never let maths stop you from doing anything, especially leaving cert maths. i remember back when i did the LC... i failed my mocks... badly. was told to drop down to pass many times, ended up with a B in honours. it's logic. persist with it long enough and it will make sense. besides, maths makes so much more sense when you actually have a purpose, you wont be doing theorem proofs or that crap.