School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Marketing
  • Unit Code

    MKT6308
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephanie MEEK

Description

This unit reviews current and emerging issues and evaluates their relevance to modern-day marketing practice. It promotes critical thought and application of cutting edge concepts in both marketing and their application to the current business context. Of interest will be the way marketing has developed over time in its role as the driving-force of the modern business. The unit therefore focuses on the theories and strategies adopted by the marketing profession. Selected contemporary marketing-based topics are explored by various means, such as, case studies, current research, and industry-based projects.

Prerequisite Rule

Students enrolled in the L42 course or SPAAPI specialisation must have passed FBL5020.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine, analyse and synthesis complex information and data to identify current issues in the marketplace and recommend sustainable solutions to solve business problems.
  2. Adapt to the changing needs of the marketplace through product and brand development.
  3. Critique contemporary issues in marketing and its adaptation by relevant businesses and organisations.
  4. Synthesize emerging trends in marketing practices and their impact on the corporate and social environment.
  5. Discuss and apply theories and practice developed in other units.
  6. Appraise the latest developments in marketing and their application to the students current corporate role.

Unit Content

  1. Current and emerging issues and trends in marketing.
  2. Technology, innovation and the digital landscape in marketing.
  3. Contemporary marketing strategy and research trends analysis.
  4. Global challenges impacting the marketing industry.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's 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 via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will research and critically appraise a range of contemporary challenges in marketing. Students will generate new and innovative ideas while assessing these current issues. Through guest speakers and real world industry case studies, students will be exposed to a range of cross-cultural and international applications of the current issues in marketing.

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
PresentationPresentation assignment40%
AssignmentReview assignment20%
AssignmentWritten critical article40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPresentation assignment40%
AssignmentReview assignment20%
AssignmentWritten critical article40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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