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BTC3300
Faculty of Business and Economics
This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
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Faculty
Organisational Unit
Department of Business Law and Taxation
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Offered
- First semester 2016 (Day)
Synopsis
The legal framework which operates in relation to marketing decisions and practice. The impact of common law, legislation and self-regulating codes of practice in the market place. Particular topics include intellectual property rights, product development and promotion, product safety and quality, the regulation of unfair and anti-competitive conduct, franchising and electronic marketing and the law.
Outcomes
The learning goals associated with this unit are to:
- identify and analyse the consumer protection laws and apply those laws to a range of marketing and advertising strategies
- identify and analyse the laws protecting intellectual property and apply those laws to the development and marketing of new products and ideas
- identify, analyse and apply the laws regulating a range of competition practices including pricing and distribution
- develop an ability to research and critically evaluate developments in marketing law.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination: 70%
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.
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