School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Marketing in Global Sport Business
  • Unit Code

    SPM2510
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    5
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anthony KERR

Description

The unit examines concepts, principles and practices of marketing and communication for sport and events. It focuses upon the digital tools that are used to create value and engage consumers, fans, sponsors, media and other key stakeholders in global sport business. A key focus of the unit is contemporary communication mechanisms, focusing on digital marketing and the use of new technology (including eSports, social media, the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence (AI)). Students gain experience in developing effective communication strategies for the dynamic, contemporary and globalised sport and event industries.

Equivalent Rule

SPM2610

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse cultural, economic, and socio-political factors that influence communication and marketing approaches in global sport business.
  2. Communicate effectively to a variety of sport business and event stakeholders with the ability to adapt the message, medium and technology appropriately.
  3. Collaborate effectively in a team setting to produce measurable marketing and communication outcomes for a sport business or event.
  4. Apply relevant knowledge to address the challenges facing the commercialisation of global sport business.
  5. Generate innovative solutions in sport business that respond to opportunities and constant change.

Unit Content

  1. Marketing theories and concepts in relation to sport and events.
  2. Marketing to, and communicating with, various stakeholder groups.
  3. The commercialisation and digitalisation of sport and events.
  4. Global sport and event sponsorship and media relations.
  5. Digital marketing and communication technologies.
  6. Sport and event marketing analytics.
  7. Fantasy sport, eSports, the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  8. Experiential marketing and the servicescape.
  9. Branding, image and crisis communication.
  10. Legal and ethical issues in marketing and communication.
  11. Future trends and contemporary challenges.
  12. Consolidating teamwork in sport business and events.

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 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

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
PresentationPromotional Video and Storyboard (Individual)30%
ProjectMarketing and Communication Plan (Group)30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPromotional Video and Storyboard (Individual)30%
ProjectMarketing and Communication Plan (Group)30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment40%

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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