School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    International Advertising
  • Unit Code

    ADV3112
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Diane Mary SLADE

Description

This unit will explore the advertising strategies behind global brand platforms. Students will investigate the planning and implementation strategies adopted by clients and agencies to embrace cultural and social difference, to `think globally but act locally". The unit will also examine the impact of international and local regulations and laws on advertising in a global environment.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ADV2116

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADV0112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse local advertising and consumer response to global brands.
  2. Describe the processes and challenges of media channel planning in an international environment.
  3. Develop an international advertising strategy for a global brand.
  4. Discuss current trends in international advertising.
  5. Discuss international and local regulations and laws that affect advertising.
  6. Evaluate the advertising strategies of a selection of global brands.

Unit Content

  1. Brand survival internationally - why brands fail.
  2. Cultural and social challenges that affect international brand planning.
  3. How advertising agencies meet the challenges of international brand promotion.
  4. International advertising strategies - market by market.
  5. International and local regulations and laws.
  6. Local brands that make global headlines.
  7. Planning an international brand strategy.
  8. Target marketing and consumer responses.
  9. The effects of media channel planning in local markets and across continents.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, Workshops, Lectures.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Presentation25%
TestIn-class Test25%
AssignmentProject/ Presentation50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    International Advertising
  • Unit Code

    ADV3112
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Miss Diane Mary SLADE

Description

This unit will explore the advertising strategies behind global brand platforms. Students will investigate the planning and implementation strategies adopted by clients and agencies to embrace cultural and social difference, to `think globally but act locally". The unit will also examine the impact of international and local regulations and laws on advertising in a global environment.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from ADV2116

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADV0112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse local advertising and consumer response to global brands.
  2. Describe the processes and challenges of media channel planning in an international environment.
  3. Develop an international advertising strategy for a global brand.
  4. Discuss current trends in international advertising.
  5. Discuss international and local regulations and laws that affect advertising.
  6. Evaluate the advertising strategies of a selection of global brands.

Unit Content

  1. Brand survival internationally - why brands fail.
  2. Cultural and social challenges that affect international brand planning.
  3. How advertising agencies meet the challenges of international brand promotion.
  4. International advertising strategies - market by market.
  5. International and local regulations and laws.
  6. Local brands that make global headlines.
  7. Planning an international brand strategy.
  8. Target marketing and consumer responses.
  9. The effects of media channel planning in local markets and across continents.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, Workshops, Lectures.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentResearch Presentation25%
TestIn-class Test25%
AssignmentProject/ Presentation50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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