MKC3130 - Strategic issues in marketing

Leader: Ms Erica Brady

Offered

Clayton First semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

This subject integrates the conceptual knowledge and skills developed in earlier marketing subjects and sharpens students' abilities to analyse, evaluate and implement marketing strategies. The subject emphasises strategic analysis and the process of decision making in a marketing management context.

Objectives

The learning objectives of this unit are to:

• integrate the theoretical and functional aspects of marketing (and other business disciplines) into a practical problem-solving framework;
• analyse a marketing problem based on supplied information;
• design and recommend marketing strategies within a given context;
• source and select relevant marketing theories to support analysis and recommendations.

Assessment

Assignment(s): 50%
Examination (2 hours): 50%

Contact hours

3 Hours class contact or equivalent per week

Prerequisites

MKC2210

Prohibitions

MKF3131, MKW3440