School: Business and Law

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

    Consumer Behaviour
  • Unit Code

    MKT2608
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephanie Agnes MEEK

Description

Living in a consumer culture, we constantly engage in consumer decision making; we purchase and covet things that create our lifestyles, express our identities, and define us. Understanding and influencing consumer behaviour underpins consumer-brand relationships and ultimately a brand's success. This unit will explore the digital, cultural and commercial factors that influence the way people consume. To understand these complex processes you will be introduced to perspectives on consumption from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, semiotics and marketing. You will learn about the techniques that marketers use to understand and influence buyer behaviour. In this unit, you will be able to contribute your own insights and experiences as a consumer and ultimately, you will learn about your own consumer behaviour and that of others. This unit will allow you to understand consumer behaviour from the consumer's and the marketer's perspectives.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADV2105, MKT2600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse your own buyer behaviour, and that of others.
  2. Predict the likely effect of marketing decisions on the behaviour of buyers.
  3. Use buyer behaviour theory to market products more efficiently and successfully.
  4. Explain the key terms, concepts and models of buyer behaviour theory.

Unit Content

  1. The Self and Identity.
  2. Attitudes.
  3. Consumer Culture.
  4. Perception.
  5. Decision Making.
  6. Learning and Memory.
  7. Motivation.
  8. Personality, Lifestyles and Values.
  9. Buying, Using and Disposing.
  10. Influences: Groups and Social Media.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class and online discussions where students are encouraged to discuss consumption choice and decision-making. Successful completion of the unit requires individual and group assessment items which are assessed for quality academic and professional standards, including oral and written communication (structure, language and conventions), critical analysis (depth of thought, development of argument, logical analysis and insight), depth and breadth of coverage, and ability to research effectively using both academic and contemporary sources.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase Studies40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase studies40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Solomon, M. (2018). Consumer behaviour : Buying, having, and being (4th ed., p. 623). Melbourne, VIC: Pearson. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1048790836
  • Solomon, M. (2018). Consumer behaviour : Buying, having, and being (4th ed., p. 623). Melbourne, VIC: Pearson. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1048790836

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: Business and Law

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

    Consumer Behaviour
  • Unit Code

    MKT2608
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephanie Agnes MEEK

Description

Living in a consumer culture, we constantly engage in consumer decision making; we purchase and covet things that create our lifestyles, express our identities, and define us. Understanding and influencing consumer behaviour underpins consumer-brand relationships and ultimately a brand's success. This unit will explore the digital, cultural and commercial factors that influence the way people consume. To understand these complex processes you will be introduced to perspectives on consumption from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, semiotics and marketing. You will learn about the techniques that marketers use to understand and influence buyer behaviour. In this unit, you will be able to contribute your own insights and experiences as a consumer and ultimately, you will learn about your own consumer behaviour and that of others. This unit will allow you to understand consumer behaviour from the consumer's and the marketer's perspectives.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADV2105, MKT2600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse your own buyer behaviour, and that of others.
  2. Predict the likely effect of marketing decisions on the behaviour of buyers.
  3. Use buyer behaviour theory to market products more efficiently and successfully.
  4. Explain the key terms, concepts and models of buyer behaviour theory.

Unit Content

  1. The Self and Identity.
  2. Attitudes.
  3. Consumer Culture.
  4. Perception.
  5. Decision Making.
  6. Learning and Memory.
  7. Motivation.
  8. Personality, Lifestyles and Values.
  9. Buying, Using and Disposing.
  10. Influences: Groups and Social Media.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class and online discussions where students are encouraged to discuss consumption choice and decision-making. Successful completion of the unit requires individual and group assessment items which are assessed for quality academic and professional standards, including oral and written communication (structure, language and conventions), critical analysis (depth of thought, development of argument, logical analysis and insight), depth and breadth of coverage, and ability to research effectively using both academic and contemporary sources.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase Studies40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase studies40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Solomon, M. (2018). Consumer behaviour : Buying, having, and being (4th ed., p. 623). Melbourne, VIC: Pearson. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1048790836

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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