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BTX5150 - Law of marketing

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Organisational Unit

Department of Business Law and Taxation

Coordinator(s)

Mr Mark Bender

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

The unit aims to develop an understanding of the legal frameworks regulating marketing activities, including competition law, the regulation of marketing communication, channel strategies and the fundamentals of intellectual property principles.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify, analyse and apply laws designed to protect consumers
identify, analyse and apply intellectual property principles and apply these to the development, marketing and protection of products, knowledge and ideas.
identify, analyse and apply the laws regulating a range of competition practices.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%

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.

Prohibitions

BTX9150