Economics - Commerce or Arts?

[lateralus]

Hey I did a search for this and couldn't find anything, so sorry if this has been answered.

Is there any difference or advantage in studying economics through Commerce instead of Arts?

Thanks

[au]

If you want a job in economics, I'm pretty sure you'd require commerce

[simpak]

Advantage - not having to do IDFs.

[Gloamglozer]

Advantage - not having to do IDFs.

Did they sort of get rid of that but didn't really?

I guess another one:  Doing it through Arts makes you a boss Arts student.  Respect soars amongst science and commerce students lol.

[simpak]

Advantage - not having to do IDFs.

Did they sort of get rid of that but didn't really?

I guess another one:  Doing it through Arts makes you a boss Arts student.  Respect soars amongst science and commerce students lol.

No I meant the advantage to Commerce is no IDF.  Arts still has one and now they are literally titled things like 'Love' and 'Power'.

[tram]

If you do economics through arts it will take up all your breath i believe, it really depends where you want to end up afterwards/what you can get into, if you want to do some artsy subjects on the side do arts, if you (lets face it) want $$$ go for commerce and chuck in an extra major, if you are purely interested in doing economics though, it doesn't really matter either way, you do exactly the same subjects (i.e. there are arts ppl in my lectures and tutes), commerce just might be a better initial 'signal' to employers than arts if you want a job in the commerce industry

[lateralus]

Thanks guys.
I'm just struggling to make my mind up about what I want to do, because I enjoy doing a lot of things.
I'm really interested in economics/finance but also politics and sometimes I want to electronics engineering too.
I want to go to Melbourne Uni, not Monash, but i'm going to have to let one area of study go.

[simpak]

I would do a BComm with a breadth track in Politics.

[lateralus]

Yeah haha, all my subjects at high school are primed for engineering though, spec, methods, chem, physics. Bit of a pickle

[dc302]

You should probably also have a think about jobs in engineering vs jobs after commerce, instead of just thinking about the degree itself.

[simpak]

Which do you enjoy /most/.
I also liked vastly different things, bad decisions can set you back one year.

[happyhappyland]

I reckon its more commerce. Some aspects of it is very similar to analysis sections in Accounting. But then again, Ive only done intro micro

[Xavier1234]

Advantage - not having to do IDFs.

  Doing it through Arts makes you a boss Arts student.  Respect soars amongst science and commerce students lol.

LOLLL

But yeah, you have to do one arse foundation subs which have boring titles like: "Power" or "Identity" or "Language" or some crap like that. They're new though, so my rants are baseless. 

Only do Economics in Arts if you're not interested in any other commerce majors apart from Eco, and you want to get formally qualified in, say, politics or geography or philosophy.