MKTG100-11SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2011 start

Principles of Marketing

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 November 2011
End Date: Sunday, 25 December 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 18 November 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 9 December 2011

Description

This course aims to enable students to understand the fundamental concepts and theories of marketing and how they may be applied to the marketplace in a modern and dynamic environment. By the end of the course, students should appreciate the various concepts and theories of marketing and understand how these may be appropriately applied in achieving marketing objectives in a variety of contexts and environments.

The foundations of marketing are explored. Lectures and practical exercises introduce students to the marketing concept, marketing environments, marketing strategy, its planning, implementation and control as well as consumer behaviour. The core elements of product, pricing, promotion and distribution are addressed.

This course is a prerequisite for all stage two marketing courses and any advanced study in marketing.

Learning Outcomes

  • The course is designed to help you develop marketing related skills as well as knowledge about marketing topics. The assigned readings and lectures will help to familiarise you with critical marketing terminology and concepts.

    At the completion of the course, successful students should be able to:
  • Understand and explain the four components of the marketing mix.
  • Recognise the role of marketing in the strategic planning process of a firm.
  • Link the marketing mix elements to a firm’s marketing strategy.
  • Apply marketing concepts to specific business cases and situations.

Restrictions

MGMT102

Equivalent Courses

MGMT102

Course Coordinator / Lecturers

Ekant Veer and Lucie Ozanne

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Test 1 23 Nov 2011 25% Test 1
Assignment 16 Dec 2011 25% Assignment
Final Examination 50% Final Examination


Assessment in this course is designed to measure the extent to which a student is able to recognise and apply marketing concepts. It is also intended to reward those who:
Consistently do the readings and other assignments on schedule,
Regularly attend lectures

Weightings and descriptions of the various pieces of assessment are as follows:
Term Test 1 25% (25% total)
Term tests will be two hours long (closed book) and cover the concepts discussed in class. The material for Term Test 1 will include specific chapters as described in class. The Term Test will be composed of multiple choice and short essay questions.

Assignment 25% (25% total)
The assignment is to be done individually. You will have until Friday December 16th at 12 noon to complete the assignment. All assignments will be handed in online via LEARN. More details about the assignment will be given in class.

Final Exam 50%
The final exam will be three hours long (closed book), and will require students to demonstrate their knowledge of the concepts discussed in class. The final exam covers material found in all assigned chapters during the semester.

Grading
The marks for the term test and final exam will be scaled to a mean of 61 and a standard deviation of 17 before a final grade is determined. You should not regard 50% as a pass mark.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Elliott, Greg. , Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn., Waller, David S; Marketing ; John Wiley & Sons, 2010 (Elliot et al. (2011) Marketing 2nd Edition. Wiley http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002171.html).

Notes

A summary of Departmental academic policies on course grading, Aegrotat considerations, etc. is available under:
http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/docs/acad_writing/acadpolicies.doc
If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator.  The Department assumes that you have read this document.
You should also read the “Information related to courses and assessment” on Page 32 of the Enrolment Handbook 2011 (also in UC Calendar “General Course and Examination Regulations”).

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $630.00

International fee $2,775.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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