School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Marketing Principles & Practices
  • Unit Code

    WCE1600
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Anthony KERR

Description

This unit introduces students to the core principles and concepts of marketing theory, practice, and research. Students will develop an understanding of the fundamental principles behind successful marketing to increase revenue, reduce the cost of doing business (as a percentage of sales), and build the long-term value of a business. Throughout the unit, students will learn about customer behaviour and the segmentation, targeting and positioning process whereby students will develop a solid understanding of how marketers create value for customers and their firms alike.

Equivalent Rule

This unit is equivalent to MKT1600. MKT1600 was previously coded MBA560G, MBA562G, MKT1100, MKT410B.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Detail how marketing principles influence the strategies and tactics of diverse organisations in local, national, and international markets.
  2. Examine how organisational values shape the ethics of marketing activities in a variety contexts.
  3. Explain how value is created for customers, organisations and society through the application of relevant marketing principles and practices.
  4. Describe how marketing practitioners employ marketing tools and techniques to build brand equity in contemporary organisations.

Unit Content

  1. Marketing Strategy and Planning.
  2. Understanding Customer Behaviour.
  3. Marketing Research and Customer Insights.
  4. Market Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning.
  5. Value through Products and Brands.
  6. Value through Services, Relationships and Experiences.
  7. Value through Pricing.
  8. Marketing Communications.
  9. The Marketing Environment.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit involves industry guest speakers and real-world case studies, providing authentic learning experiences and industry engagement opportunities.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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
TypeDescription
EssayMarketing Essay
ReportEnvironmental Marketing Analysis
Case StudyMarketing Case Study

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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