Year 1 will teach you to think like a designer, design like a marketer, and break the rules of business, ideating, designing, launching and tracking campaigns.
Focuses on developing your skills in key areas of Branding, SEO & CRMs, Inbound Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communications, Advertising and Communication.
Develop your critical thinking and get prepared to become a change maker in the industry. You’ll create a business strategy and pitch your work so you’re experienced in stakeholder, manager and investor approvals.
Understanding the end-to-end design process gives you a real edge over other marketers. You’ll learn what makes a design element successful by getting a handle on the principles of design, and practice this first hand creating design assets using InDesign and Photoshop. You’ll also find out what makes certain designs appeal to certain people by learning more about target audiences.
A functional, responsive website is a beautiful thing. Find out how to make one for tablet and smartphone using WordPress, HTML and CSS. You’ll also learn how to use content management systems, plugins and widgets, and website template builders like Wix and Square Space to create a website.
You’ll learn to develop the bones of a great piece of content including the set-up of the story. You’ll build your copywriting skills and use your new digital marketing skills to develop and repurpose content across a range of social media, digital and print mediums.
You’ll look at customer insights, social and cultural influences on buying behaviour, the psychology of pricing and the role of media in consumer perceptions.
You’ll learn the role of marketing in a successful business, how to clearly define a target market and identify their media consumption trends. You’ll learn about developing a unique selling proposition and how to create a plan to effectively communicate your brand and message. You’ll also get the practical skills to use online platforms and tools to implement and execute an effective digital marketing plan, including identifying social media platforms and content that reaches your target audience. You’ll learn how to design and implement effective email campaigns. Explore advertising platforms and plan targeted campaigns, learning when and how to use SEO, SEM, Email marketing, social custom audiences and retargeting, and how to track and report on results.
You’ll also start developing your 2D and 3D skills. Learn how to convey your ideas with moving image, and produce your own short 2D animations. Then you’ll turn your 2D images into 3D models and start to develop your own 3D art assets and animations.
You’ll delve into the mind-set of an entrepreneur. Learn about design thinking, lean start up principles, the ins and outs of working for yourself rather than someone else, how to build resilience, and how to face business challenges.
You’ll bring together everything you’ve learned to develop a campaign. You’ll find a market need through research or your own ideas, write a marketing plan, develop and repurpose content, develop creative assets, and present the plan to your fellow students.
Branding
Deep dive into what makes certain brands thrive while others die. Get under the hood of how a brand is developed from start to finish, and the design process is undertaken. Learn how branding and brand identity influence an audience. The apply all of this practically by developing your own branded visual assets.
SEO & CRM
Discover SEO techniques and learn to analyse data which will form the basis of developing and implementing new engagement strategies. Understand how CRM’s work to manage, track, analyse and facilitate customer interactions and relationships and generate growth in business or marketing contexts.
Inbound Marketing
Lead generation is the backbone of many innovation-led businesses. Learn about the key concepts, principles and unique challenges of inbound marketing. Understand quality measures required to build customer loyalty and measure the effectiveness of your inbound marketing strategies. Understand how content drives customer leads and improves conversion.
Creative Strategies
Creative strategies you through challenging briefs enabling you to extend creative problem-solving skills through intense collaboration of team members with diverse skills and experience. You will investigate creative theory and industry processes along with generating innovative creative solutions to produce highly finished brand communication.
Digital Marketing
In this course you are introduced to the dynamic world of digital marketing and the potential it can provide. Digital Marketing targets both hardware and software specific digital channels in the context of both their technology underpinnings and the facilitation of delivery mechanics.
Social Marketing Platform
Introduces you to the value of social platforms in marketing and the importance of establishing both a cohesive and a comprehensive platform presence. It aims to provide you with appropriate knowledge and competence in the fundamentals of social media advertising, in particular digital campaigns.
Integrated Marketing Communications
You will learn about the core marketing tools of advertising, promotion and social platforms that are critical to reaching customers, and how the integration of marketing channels reaches customers effectively. Learn what media channels are suitable for a variety of different communications scenarios. Learn how to track the effectiveness of integrated marketing communications.
You will produce a business strategy and design work at an industry standard. You’ll spend a lot of time pitching and presenting your work, so you are experienced in stakeholder, manager, and investor approvals for your ideas.
Growth Hacking
We’ll teach you the growth-hacker mindset, including how to think about growth hacking instead of just “digital marketing”. We will teach you growth-hacking skills, strategies, processes, and best practices and get your started on your ride as a t shaped growth marketer by teaching you all the required digital metrics, including lean analytics, AAARRR, OMTM, digital conversion funnels, and LTV and CAC calculations.
Purpose Driven Leadership
Leadership is hard! So during this year you’ll understand the principles of great leadership and develop skills to lead and manage individuals and teams. A part of this is about demonstrating integrity, ethical conduct, accountability and awareness of professionalism.
You’ll work in an industry-simulated environment “safe space” in which you’ll evaluate, create, design, develop and implement strategic plans in topics of your choice, to address real clients’ marketing, advertising and communication objectives.
Innovation Models
Understand how innovative thinking is fostered in a business by analysing the business model of an existing venture using innovation theory and principles to determine its viability.
You’ll learn to create hypotheses and experiments to test the viability of a business model and leaned to adapt and iterate the model based on the results of your experiments. Then you’ll plan major changes to the model to pivot your approach.
Industry Practice Studio
Get ready to be projected into the industry! This piece of group work will develop your project management, time management, prioritisation, and interpersonal skills by working in a team across multiple elective topics, researching and evaluating marketing and advertising projects to plan and implement your own campaign.
This project will give you experience in collaboratively developing a creative piece of work; learning how to work with diverse groups in a business, through agile development and processes, and is a broad experience for when you graduate.
