Postgraduate - UnitMKF5561 - E-marketing

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Marketing
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Samir Gupta

Synopsis

Traditional business disciplines are starting to appreciate the fundamental challenges presented by the application of technology to their knowledge base. In marketing the most visible agent of change has been the WWW and online transacting which has already revolutionised a number of sectors of the world economy. This unit takes marketing and traditional views of marketing and exposes then to critical analysis in the light of technological change. It explores how marketers can utilise different ways of understanding, creating, communicating and delivering customer value in the marketplace.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

provide an appreciation of new electronic communication technologies and their potential as platforms for marketing applications
develop an understanding of the challenges presented to marketers by the emergence of information products
provide an insight into how traditional marketing structures and concepts, techniques and activities translate into the new market medium
traverse the marketing/technology interface within organisations and focus technological opportunities upon the generation of realisable benefits and customer value.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Samir Gupta

Prerequisites

Students must have completed MKX9160, MKF5916, MBA5906 or MBA9006 to undertake this unit. Students enrolled in course 3802 have no prerequisites.

Prohibitions

MKX5561