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

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Saalem SADEQUE

Description

This capstone unit in marketing is designed for final year marketing students. The unit explores the role of marketing as part of the business planning process, through the collection and analysis of information, the design and development of marketing plans and marketing action plans, and the implementation and evaluation of marketing strategies and tactics. The unit explores marketing strategy as the basis of a sustainable competitive advantage from a local, national, and international context.

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 ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot 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

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
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

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Saalem SADEQUE

Description

This capstone unit in marketing is designed for final year marketing students. The unit explores the role of marketing as part of the business planning process, through the collection and analysis of information, the design and development of marketing plans and marketing action plans, and the implementation and evaluation of marketing strategies and tactics. The unit explores marketing strategy as the basis of a sustainable competitive advantage from a local, national, and international context.

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 ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot 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

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

Core Reading(s)

  • Ferrell, H., & Hochstein. (2022). Marketing Strategy: Text and cases (8th ed., pp. xix, 536). Boston, MA: Cengage. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1242732557

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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