9764 (v.7) Consumer Behaviour 102

Area:

School of Marketing

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Seminar:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Introduces the role of consumer behaviour and how it is shaped by the social and cultural environment and the psychological foundations. The unit in essence focuses on the decision processes in consumption behaviour in different buying situations. This will develop the student's ability to integrate marketing processes at a higher level. For marketers, an understanding of how a consumer selects, purchases, uses and disposes of products and services is pertinent to successfully managing the marketing function. Concepts drawn from various disciplines such as psychology, economics and anthropology will also be examined.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

080500 Sales and Marketing (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y			Y
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y			Y
2006	Joondalup Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Joondalup Campus	Semester 2	Y
2006	Metro College Malaysia	Semester 1	Y
2006	Metro College Malaysia	Study Period 1	Y
2006	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2006	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 2	Y
2006	Miri Sarawak Campus	Study Period 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External