Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Strategic Marketing
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
MKTG1215 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2006, Sem 2 2006, Sem 1 2007, Sem 2 2007, Sem 1 2008, Sem 2 2008, Sem 1 2009, Sem 2 2009, Sem 1 2010, Sem 2 2010, Sem 1 2011, Sem 2 2011, Sem 1 2012, Sem 2 2012, Sem 1 2013, Sem 2 2013, Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2017, Sem 1 2018, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025 |
Flexible Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JulDec2018 (KP5) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JanJun2019 (KP3) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JanJun2020 (All) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JulDec2020 (KP5) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JulDec2021 (KP4) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JulDec2022 (KP4), JulDec2022 (All) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JulDec2023 (KP4) |
MKTG1397 |
RMIT Online |
Postgraduate |
625H Economics, Finance and Marketing |
Internet |
JulDec2024 (KP4), JulDec2024 (All) |
Course Coordinator: Dr Christopher White
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 (3) 9925 5907
Course Coordinator Email: christopher.white@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Melbourne Campus, Building 80
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment via email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Enforced Requisites:
You must complete the following courses in a semester before you take Strategic Marketing:
- 008994 - Marketing Management
- 008995 - Consumer Behaviour
- 008996 - Marketing Communications Strategy
- 008997 - Marketing Research
Course Description
This course culminates and extends what you have learned in previous courses. In Strategic Marketing we will apply theories and concepts to real life business cases and contexts. We focus on understanding, measuring and managing business success factors from a strategic marketing perspective. In doing so, we use principles of strategy and learn how to deal with market challenges and how to take advantage of market opportunities to support business success. In this process, we will train critical thinking and creative thinking as fundamental capabilities for strategic marketers and decision makers.
Specifically, you will understand the way the internal and external environment shape strategic marketing decisions and implementation considerations. For example, insights into a focal company, potential customers, competitors, collaborators and contextual dynamics will enable the identification of strategic implications and potentialities. This course will also require you to build evidence-driven arguments and combine these with innovative solutions, demonstrating critical and creative thinking with regards to strategic marketing issues and opportunities.
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience. You will undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice; and be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that include industry feedback.
This course also provides you with a capstone experience, which will provide you with the opportunity to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program.
Successful completion of this course contributes to attaining the following Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) Marketers’ professional competencies:
1. Insights
3. Strategy
You will also work towards developing the following AMI professional competencies:
11. Corporate communications
17. Organisational capabilities and governance
18. Planning, project management and performance measurement
24. Leadership
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Gather data and critically assess a specific context from a strategic marketing perspective, to identify and prioritise key marketing issues and opportunities.
- Draw on the literature and effectively use research insights, tools and evidence to support your argumentation.
- Set effective strategic marketing objectives and use meaningful performance indicators to link to other internal and/or external areas.
- Demonstrate creative, critical and ethical thinking through the development of alternative strategic marketing solutions, to support effective strategic marketing decisions that benefit relevant stakeholders.
- Demonstrate how to implement and control strategic marketing solutions, while effectively managing stakeholders.
- Collaborate with industry to combine theoretical knowledge with practical application to understand how to identify, assess and select strategies with regards to various relevant organisational contexts.
Overview of Learning Activities
Case studies will be used to explore, critique and form strategic marketing ideas. Class exercises that focus on applying theory to practical situations will assist in developing problem solving skills. This course also includes a Work Integrated Learning experience. You will undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice; and be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that include industry feedback.
Overview of Learning Resources
Case studies; interactive lectures; group discussions; research sessions.
Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies\Canvas. The lecture notes and workshop notes are posted on Canvas.
Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.
Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching period.
Overview of Assessment
The assessment alignment list below shows the assessment tasks against the learning outcomes they develop.
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.