School: Arts and Humanities

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Advertising and Brand Awareness
  • Unit Code

    CMM5170
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kelly Wi Yan CHOONG

Description

This unit examines brands and their strategic management in communicating with their intended target audiences. Students investigate the brand process from development to expression across multiple communication platforms.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply communication and collaboration skills to design innovative contributions to the practice of advertising and brand awareness.
  2. Apply high level management skills to initiate, research, conceptualise and execute an effective brand creative brief.
  3. Critically evaluate and apply technical and creative skills to manage an effective brand strategy.
  4. Demonstrate a sound understanding and insightful reflection of theories, historical evolution, trends, characteristics, and methods required to successfully plan and execute professional projects.
  5. Reflect on recent national and international developments in principles and methods of advertising and branding practices.

Unit Content

  1. Brand equity and evaluation.
  2. Practical brand management models and theories.
  3. Significance of culture and language in global brand strategies.
  4. Strategic brand design.
  5. The interdependence between brands and business.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and Workshops.

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
PresentationResearch Presentation50%
ProjectProject Presentation50%

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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School: Arts and Humanities

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Advertising and Brand Awareness
  • Unit Code

    CMM5170
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kelly Wi Yan CHOONG

Description

This unit examines brands and their strategic management in communicating with their intended target audiences. Students investigate the brand process from development to expression across multiple communication platforms.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply communication and collaboration skills to design innovative contributions to the practice of advertising and brand awareness.
  2. Apply high level management skills to initiate, research, conceptualise and execute an effective brand creative brief.
  3. Critically evaluate and apply technical and creative skills to manage an effective brand strategy.
  4. Demonstrate a sound understanding and insightful reflection of theories, historical evolution, trends, characteristics, and methods required to successfully plan and execute professional projects.
  5. Reflect on recent national and international developments in principles and methods of advertising and branding practices.

Unit Content

  1. Brand equity and evaluation.
  2. Practical brand management models and theories.
  3. Significance of culture and language in global brand strategies.
  4. Strategic brand design.
  5. The interdependence between brands and business.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars and Workshops.

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
PresentationResearch Presentation50%
ProjectProject Presentation50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationResearch Presentation50%
ProjectProject Presentation50%

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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