Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Advertising Practice
  • Unit Code

    ADV3125
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

Description

This unit consolidates student learning across the Advertising major and provides for a professional portfolio of strategic and creative work that answers external commercial client briefs. At its core integrated campaigns are created that meet international professional advertising practice standards demonstrating theory into practice for future employers.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from ADV1116, ADV2107

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CMM3204

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate as a team member.
  2. Create a complex campaign to professional standards for external review.
  3. Interpret and refine a commercial advertising project brief.
  4. Reflect and critique their own work and that of their peers.

Unit Content

  1. Interpret and research a commercial advertising brief.
  2. Manage a complex campaign from planning to evaluation.
  3. Present an inspiring campaign to an external audience for review.
  4. Produce a commercial advertising campaign targeting specific groups.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject Preparation30%
PresentationCampaign70%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Advertising Practice
  • Unit Code

    ADV3125
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit consolidates student learning across the Advertising major and provides for a professional portfolio of strategic and creative work that answers external commercial client briefs. At its core integrated campaigns are created that meet international professional advertising practice standards demonstrating theory into practice for future employers.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from ADV1116, ADV2107

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CMM3204

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate as a team member.
  2. Create a complex campaign to professional standards for external review.
  3. Interpret and refine a commercial advertising project brief.
  4. Reflect and critique their own work and that of their peers.

Unit Content

  1. Interpret and research a commercial advertising brief.
  2. Manage a complex campaign from planning to evaluation.
  3. Present an inspiring campaign to an external audience for review.
  4. Produce a commercial advertising campaign targeting specific groups.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject Preparation30%
PresentationCampaign70%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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