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

    Marketing Strategy
  • Unit Code

    MKT3601
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Mark FANNING

Description

This capstone unit in marketing, designed for final year marketing students, features the formulation of competitive marketing strategies. The key feature of this unit is the comprehensive and in-depth coverage of external and internal analyses of select business situations, popular strategic models, especially the concept of sustainable competitive advantage, and strategy implementation.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MKT1600

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MKT3236

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and evaluate business strategies and marketing opportunities.
  2. Critically appraise the major strategic marketing concepts including situation analyses, strategic models/options, strategy implementation and evaluation.
  3. Formulate competitive marketing strategies to gain or maintain competitive advantage.

Unit Content

  1. Part 1: An overview of marketing: Customer-focused marketing, marketing planning and strategy, marketing research and information systems.
  2. Part 2: Understanding markets: Consumer behaviour, target markets and relationships marketing, business markets and buying behaviour.
  3. Part 3: The expanded marketing mix: product decisions, pricing decisions, distribution decisions, promotional decisions. Branding: Integrating marketing communications.

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 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot 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

On Campus mode of delivery - One weekly seminar of lectures and case discussions. Off Campus mode of delivery - Resources for this unit will be available via MyECU/Blackboard. Regular online access is required.

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
TestOnline Quiz20%
AssignmentProject35%
PresentationStrategy Presentation45%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Quiz20%
AssignmentProject35%
PresentationStrategy Presentation45%

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

    Marketing Strategy
  • Unit Code

    MKT3601
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephen Mark FANNING

Description

This capstone unit in marketing, designed for final year marketing students, features the formulation of competitive marketing strategies. The key feature of this unit is the comprehensive and in-depth coverage of external and internal analyses of select business situations, popular strategic models, especially the concept of sustainable competitive advantage, and strategy implementation.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MKT1600

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MKT3236

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise the key strategic marketing concepts that marketing practitioners employ to achieve a competitive advantage.
  2. Audit the situational factors that marketing practitioners consider as part of the business-marketing planning process.
  3. Deconstruct the business-marketing planning process that marketing practitioners employ to design and develop a strategic marketing plan and tactical marketing action plans.
  4. Employ the appropriate approach and technologies to effectively communicate marketing knowledge to internal and external stakeholders.

Unit Content

  1. Part 1: An overview of marketing: Customer-focused marketing, marketing planning and strategy, marketing research and information systems.
  2. Part 2: Understanding markets: Consumer behaviour, target markets and relationships marketing, business markets and buying behaviour.
  3. Part 3: The expanded marketing mix: product decisions, pricing decisions, distribution decisions, promotional decisions. Branding: Integrating marketing communications.

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 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot 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

On Campus mode of delivery - One three-hour weekly seminar of lectures and case discussions. Online mode of delivery - Resources for this unit will be available via Blackboard. Regular online access is required.

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
TestOnline Quiz20%
AssignmentProject35%
PresentationStrategy Presentation45%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Quiz20%
AssignmentProject35%
PresentationStrategy Presentation45%

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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