School: Business and Law

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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Consumer Behaviour
  • Unit Code

    MKT2608
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephanie Agnes MEEK

Description

Living in a consumer culture, we constantly engage in consumer decision making; we purchase and covet things that create our lifestyles, express our identities, and define us. Understanding and influencing consumer behaviour underpins consumer-brand relationships and ultimately a brand's success. This unit will explore the digital, cultural and commercial factors that influence the way people consume. To understand these complex processes you will be introduced to perspectives on consumption from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, semiotics and marketing. You will learn about the techniques that marketers use to understand and influence buyer behaviour. In this unit, you will be able to contribute your own insights and experiences as a consumer and ultimately, you will learn about your own consumer behaviour and that of others. This unit will allow you to understand consumer behaviour from the consumer's and the marketer's perspectives.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADV2105, MKT2600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse your own buyer behaviour, and that of others.
  2. Predict the likely effect of marketing decisions on the behaviour of buyers.
  3. Use buyer behaviour theory to market products more efficiently and successfully.
  4. Explain the key terms, concepts and models of buyer behaviour theory.

Unit Content

  1. The Self and Identity.
  2. Attitudes.
  3. Consumer Culture.
  4. Perception.
  5. Decision Making.
  6. Learning and Memory.
  7. Motivation.
  8. Personality, Lifestyles and Values.
  9. Buying, Using and Disposing.
  10. Influences: Groups and Social Media.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class and online discussions where students are encouraged to discuss consumption choice and decision-making. Successful completion of the unit requires individual and group assessment items which are assessed for quality academic and professional standards, including oral and written communication (structure, language and conventions), critical analysis (depth of thought, development of argument, logical analysis and insight), depth and breadth of coverage, and ability to research effectively using both academic and contemporary sources.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase Studies40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase studies40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Consumer Behaviour
  • Unit Code

    MKT2608
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Stephanie Agnes MEEK

Description

Living in a consumer culture, we constantly engage in consumer decision making; we purchase and covet things that create our lifestyles, express our identities, and define us. Understanding and influencing consumer behaviour underpins consumer-brand relationships and ultimately a brand's success. This unit will explore the digital, cultural and commercial factors that influence the way people consume. To understand these complex processes you will be introduced to perspectives on consumption from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, semiotics and marketing. You will learn about the techniques that marketers use to understand and influence buyer behaviour. In this unit, you will be able to contribute your own insights and experiences as a consumer and ultimately, you will learn about your own consumer behaviour and that of others. This unit will allow you to understand consumer behaviour from the consumer's and the marketer's perspectives.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ADV2105, MKT2600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse your own buyer behaviour, and that of others.
  2. Predict the likely effect of marketing decisions on the behaviour of buyers.
  3. Use buyer behaviour theory to market products more efficiently and successfully.
  4. Explain the key terms, concepts and models of buyer behaviour theory.

Unit Content

  1. The Self and Identity.
  2. Attitudes.
  3. Consumer Culture.
  4. Perception.
  5. Decision Making.
  6. Learning and Memory.
  7. Motivation.
  8. Personality, Lifestyles and Values.
  9. Buying, Using and Disposing.
  10. Influences: Groups and Social Media.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class and online discussions where students are encouraged to discuss consumption choice and decision-making. Successful completion of the unit requires individual and group assessment items which are assessed for quality academic and professional standards, including oral and written communication (structure, language and conventions), critical analysis (depth of thought, development of argument, logical analysis and insight), depth and breadth of coverage, and ability to research effectively using both academic and contemporary sources.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase Studies40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project30%
PresentationTeam Project30%
Case StudyCase studies40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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