Course overview
Marketing communications is considered one of the first and most important touchpoints brands have with their consumers. In an increasingly evolving and digital environment, all brands must consider how they can deliver a clear and consistent message to drive effective and successful marketing goals. This subject provides a strategic understanding of and practical skills to plan and implement integrated marketing communications campaigns. It investigates the changing relationship between marketing communications tools and the emergence of an evolving digital media landscape and explores the new opportunities and dynamics of marketing tools. This course transforms students into marketing communications professionals by building practical skills in working with media to develop campaigns, including campaign planning, media liaison, media planning and buying, campaign evaluation, and understanding audience factors. It also examines the ethical, legal and social aspects marketing communications must consider to remain successful in a contemporary and digital marketplace.
Course learning outcomes
- Explicate and cross-examine the differing stakeholders within the marketing communications landscape, appraising a range of media and methods available to marketers to meet complex and conflicting stakeholder desires
- Apply relevant theories to analyse contemporary digital media and marketing communication campaigns
- Analyse and contextualise the role of digital media and marketing communications in a professional and ethical context.
- Evaluate and adapt relevant marketing communications theories to compose an Integrated Marketing Communications plan that fulfils insightful objectives for a contemporary brand