MMK280 - Brand Management

Unit details

Year

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong), Online
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Previously coded as:MMK380, MMT280
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Ho Yin Wong
Trimester 3: Adnan Yusuf
Prerequisite:

MMK277 or MMK101

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: MMK380, MMT280
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

Trimester 2:
1 x 1.5 hour on-campus lecture (recordings provided) and 1 x 1.5 hour on-campus seminar each week.

Trimester 3:
2 x 1.5 hour recorded lecture and 2 x 1.5 hour on-campus seminar in weeks 1-5.
1 x 1.5 hour recorded lecture and 1 x 1.5 hour on-campus seminar in week 6.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Trimester 2:
1 x 1.5 hour online lecture (recording provided) and 1 x 1.5 hour online seminar (recordings provided) each week.

Trimester 3:
2 x 1.5 hour recorded lecture and 2 x 1.5 hour online seminar (recordings provided) in weeks 1-5.
1 x 1.5 hour recorded lecture and 1 x 1.5 hour online seminar (recordings provided) in week 6.

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

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.

Learning Outcomes

ULO These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)

ULO1

Explain the role of branding in business contexts using relevant marketing and branding theories and frameworks.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Reflect on how brand theories and frameworks can be effectively leveraged to inform professional brand identity and career development.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Translate a brand strategy into recommendations for marketing activities.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication

ULO4

Evaluate the strategic role of brands in contributing to business and society.

GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1: (Individual) Professional identity task

1500 words 20% Week 7

Assessment 2: (Individual) Report (Business)

2000 words 40% Week 10
End-of-unit assessment task: Written 

2000 words

40% End-of-unit assessment period

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

Hurdle requirement: Achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the end-of-unit assessment to evidence a minimum proficiency in the aligned discipline learning outcomes included in this unit.

Learning resource

The texts and reading list for MMK280 can be found via the University Library.

Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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