School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Event Management
  • Unit Code

    TSM2202
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Eunjung KIM

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the diverse and dynamic industry of event management, from local, national and international perspectives. It explores the key concepts of stakeholder analysis, project management, financial management, venue and facility management, human resource management, technologies, and marketing and sponsorship as they apply to the planning, conceptualisation and management of events. The phenomenon of events in society, such as their cultural, economic, political and environmental impacts and legacies, alongside the diverse role of events in society will also be considered.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TSM3202, TSM5202

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the relationship of stakeholders to the planning, conceptualisation and management of events.
  2. Apply coherent knowledge and theories of the key concepts of project management, financial management, facility management, human resource management, technologies and marketing to the management of events.
  3. Evaluate the planning and delivery of an event and provide innovative ideas for improvement.
  4. Explain the cultural, economic, political and environmental impacts and legacies associated with a range of events.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to event management and perspectives.
  2. Planning and conceptualising events - event stakeholders.
  3. Access, analysis, evaluation and communication of event management concepts, theory and knowledge.
  4. Event impacts and legacies.
  5. Event venue and facility management.
  6. Event technologies.
  7. Human resource management in events.
  8. Project management for events.
  9. Sponsorship and marketing of events.
  10. Financial management of 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 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

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers are used in this unit to enhance the learning experiences of students by providing industry insights and networking opportunities. In this unit, students will complete a short-term, 6-hour minimum, professionally supervised, work integrated learning placement in an event setting.

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
EssayEvent Impact Analysis30%
PracticumEvent Critique and Reflection30%
AssignmentEvent Scenario Assignment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEvent Impact Analysis30%
PracticumEvent Critique and Reflection30%
AssignmentEvent Scenario Assignment40%

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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