MMT280 - Brand Management (Tour)
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 3: Study Tour |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 3: Andrea Vocino |
| Prerequisite: | MMK277 or MMK101 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | MMK280, MMK380 |
| In-person attendance requirements: | This unit requires students to participate in a supervised study program in Florence, Italy. Tour Dates: To be advised |
| 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. |
Note:Faculty-led Study Tours are by application only and have limited places available. Visit the Business and law study abroad website for further information and how to apply. Please contact the Faculty WIL team at bl-wil@deakin.edu.au for any enquiries. | |
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. Moreover, this tour version of the unit enables students to experience and understand branding in an international context.
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 and apply 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 |
| ULO3 | Translate a brand strategy into recommendations for marketing activities. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| 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: (Group of 2) Part A: Seminar presentation (Live) Part B: Report (Business) | Part A: 15 minutes Part B: 2500 words | Part A: 20% Part B: 40 | Part A: (On Tour) Part B: Week 8 |
| Assessment 2: (Individual) Report (Business) | 1500 words | 20% | Week 10 |
| Assessment 3: (Individual) Written Reflection (Self) | 1000 words | 20% | Week 11 |
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 40% of the marks available on all assessment tasks to evidence a minimum proficiency in the aligned branding discipline learning outcomes included in this unit.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for MMT280 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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