I'm personally pursuing the Finance stream but here are my two cents:

During first year I was steaming mad that most of my classes were social sciences classes. I honestly felt as if I got accepted into the social science program rather than commerce.

Now, as I complete my second year in the commerce program, I couldn't be happier that I took geography and two political science classes. These classes really opened my eyes to other academic disciplines.

Overall I really feel that I'm more well rounded than my friends at other universities who took commerce courses and started learning Marketing and Finance during their first year while I was writing essays on political theories.

Originally Posted by Victor K

I'm personally pursuing the Finance stream but here are my two cents:

During first year I was steaming mad that most of my classes were social sciences classes. I honestly felt as if I got accepted into the social science program rather than commerce.

Now, as I complete my second year in the commerce program, I couldn't be happier that I took geography and two political science classes. These classes really opened my eyes to other academic disciplines.

Overall I really feel that I'm more well rounded than my friends at other universities who took commerce courses and started learning Marketing and Finance during their first year while I was writing essays on political theories.

I respect your opinion, and am not saying it's wrong, I'm just saying in my situation, I feel like I've wasted a lot of time taking these nonsense electives. And if it was just first year that was like that, I wouldn't mind so much, but it's every damn year.

2nd Year: 1 Non-Commerce Elective
3rd Year: 3 Non-Commerce Electives
4th Year: 3 Non-Commerce Electives
Total (Not including 1st year): 7 Non-Commerce Electives

With those 7 wastes of time gone, an accounting student could easily make up the 2 credits that they must be "ahead" by currently, as well as take the 3 advanced accounting electives during their degree, instead of in the summer.

As far as I'm concerned, the non-commerce elective thing is a way to force us to take more courses than we really need, and rob us of more money.

for the cma do you have to overload in your 3rd year? or is that only for the ca

I don't think you have to overload... CMA doesn't require Law or Accounting Theory (I think), so you should be able to accomplish it without overloading.

i have a question....
does it mean I cant take summer school this year ?
I just finished all my 1st year exams... and it seems tht for summer school, i cant take any 2nd year level commerce plus econ courses because i just completed my micro final exam ytd. im so lost.

I took some summer school courses the summer after 1st year. I had to get a waiver of the requirements from the APO, as I hadn't technically finished Commerce 1, but they allowed me to take 2AA3 in summer school.