Social Marketing and Sustainability - MKTG309
Social Marketing seeks to develop and integrate marketing concepts with other approaches to influence behaviours that benefit individuals and communities for the greater social good. Social Marketing practice is guided by ethical principles. It seeks to integrate research, best practice, theory, audience and partnership insight, to inform the delivery of competition sensitive and segmented social change programmes that are effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable. (iSMA, 2013). Examples of social marketing include campaigns to prevent or reduce alcohol consumption, tackle obesity, smoking, drug abuse, sustainability, domestic violence and unsafe driving. This unit examines the key principles of social marketing, and explores how to design a marketing strategy that can support social change efforts. The unit uses a case study approach drawing on current and historic Australian and international campaigns.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S1 Day - Session 1, North Ryde, Day S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day S3 Day - Session 3, December 2017 - February 2018, North Ryde, Day |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Cynthia Webster, Associate Professor Ross Gordon |
| Prerequisites: |
39cp at 100 level or above |
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| NCCW(s): | BCM310 |
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| Unit Type: | People unit |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Marketing and Management Faculty of Business and Economics |
Course structures, including unit offerings, are subject to change.
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