Marketing Principles: Trading and Exchange

Course Level Undergraduate

Year

Area/Catalogue
MARK 1010

Course Level
Undergraduate

Offered Externally
Yes

Note: This offering may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Course ID
010704

Unit Value
4.5

University-wide elective course
Yes

Course owner
School of Marketing

Future Student Enquiry Current UniSA Student Enquiry

Course aim

To provide students with an understanding of marketing as the study of trade and exchange in a modern economy, and acquaint them with the key activities that are involved in marketing.

Course content

This course introduces students to the role and contribution of Marketing to achieving planned outcomes of most organisations and enterprises today. Marketing and marketing people are used in, and by, most types of organisations both big and small; for example, commercial, government, educational, artistic and social. The course will cover the main concepts and principles that underlie marketing thinking and practice. It will require students to understand these and also find out how they are applied in a range of enterprises.

Textbook(s)

Sharp, B 2013, Marketing: Theory, Evidence, Practice, 1st Edition, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Lecture	2 hours x 13 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, DISTANCE EDUCATION
External	3 hours x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, TAYLOR'S BUSINESS SCHOOL
Lecture	2 hours x 14 weeks
Tutorial	2 hours x 13 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Lecture	2.5 hours x 8 days
Tutorial	10 hours x across 14 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assignment, Continuous assessment, Examination, Group assignment, Major essay, Minor essay, Quiz, Tutorial work

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 3)
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