MMK280 - Brand Management

Unit details

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Year2018 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
Previously coded as:MMK380, MMT280
EFTSL value:

0.125

Prerequisite:

MMK277 or MMK101

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: MMK380, MMT280
Contact hours:

Campus: 1 x 2 hour class + 1 x 1 hour seminar per week

Cloud (Online): 1 x 2 hour class (recordings provided) + 1 hour online seminar (livestreamed with recordings provided) per week

Tri 2 Unit Chair

Trimester 2:  Allison Ringer

Tri 3 Unit Chair

Trimester 3:  Allison Ringer

Content

In today’s competitive world, a key to success is building a strong sustainable brand. This involves creating an identity for your brand by developing a captivating, positive and enduring brand image of your company, product or service. This distinguishes your brand from competitors, and creates an emotional connection with your customers and other stakeholders. The brand reflects the entity’s essence, history and values, as well as its future direction. Branding is not isolated to the business world, it is fundamental in your personal development. Personal branding helps create a personality and professional identity that distinguishes you from others. This is an important attribute as you begin and progress along your career and life journey. This unit is designed to allow students to explore and apply fundamental brand management and marketing theories, frameworks and applications to different personal and corporate, product and service contexts.

Assessment

Assessment 1: (Group 2 - 3) Written assignment 1 (3,500 words) 40%

Assessment 2: Individual reflection (Employability - Building your Personal Brand), weekly in-class tasks over 7-weeks 20%

Examination: (2-hours) 40%

Hurdle requirement: achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the examination.

From Trimester 3 2018:

Assessment 1: Individual reflection (Employability - Building your Personal Brand), (1,500 words) 20%

Assessment 2: (Group 2 - 3) Written report  (3,500 words) 40%

Examination: (2-hours) 40%

Hurdle requirement: achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the examination.

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