MKF5461 - Contemporary issues in marketing - 2018

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Organisational Unit

Department of Marketing

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Dominic Thomas

Coordinator(s)

Dr Dominic Thomas

Unit guides

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2018 (Evening)

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in course B6010.

Prohibitions

MKX4461

Synopsis

This unit provides students with an in-depth exposure to contemporary issues in marketing and in particular to the relationship between observed marketing practice and extant marketing theory. Taught in seminar format, the unit requires significant interaction between students and presenters.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. recognise and evaluate some of the contemporary issues facing organisations and particularly marketers and marketing in today's dynamic marketplace
  2. examine how traditional marketing theory, structures, concepts, techniques and practices may become emerging issues, transformed by new knowledge or impacted by alternative perspectives
  3. explain a number of contemporary issues and their impact in detail
  4. analyse existing literature to gain insight into selected current and future issues that will impact business and marketing in particular
  5. recommend and compose responses to existing or potential marketing issues.

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.

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