UEH Talent Programs

Brief Course Description

1. Course Title:

Brand and Product Management

2. Language of Instruction:

Tiếng Anh

3. Course Code:

MAR203

4. Credits:

4

5. Course Objectives:

This Brand and Product Management course provides an understanding of the key issues in building, maintaining, and defending brands and its brand equity. It is focused on helping you to develop and execute integrated brand communication strategies to convey meanings to the target audience in order to build strong brands. Marketing communication and branding are critical aspects of a company’s overall marketing mission and a major determinant of its success in a market. Specific issues include understanding your brands from different perspectives, understanding customers, and crafting your customer persona, designing brand identity, positioning, and brand values, and leveraging brands, and marketing communication strategies to build its brand equity. To explore such issues, this course provides relevant and up-to-date theories, concepts, techniques, and models in strategic marketing communication and branding. The course will interweave lectures, group activities, brand expertise sharing, and an integrated brand promotion group project coached by a brand professional.

6. Brief Description of Course Content:

Brand and Product Management focuses on the role brands and products play in the planning and execution of marketing strategies. Aspects of brand and product management include the building, implementation and maintenance of brands within a range of different contexts are covered in this unit. Students will develop a critical view of the inherent challenges firms encounter in creating and maintaining brands from a marketing perspective. This unit uses workshop sessions and online activities to create an interactive learning environment and  bring the content to life.

Students are also allowed to complete this unit with co-op option. Co-op offers students opportunities to apply what they have been learning in the classroom into a work environment, and apply what they have learned through their work into their studies, enriching learning in both environments. 

In addition to applying their classroom learning in meaningful ways within a work environment before graduation, co-op students are able to expand their learning to develop employability and technical skills and knowledge within the work context. Students are able to explore possible career paths through short term placements with a variety of employers in a variety of roles. Expanded professional networks, with opportunities to meet people working within the student’s field and positions of interest, can provide professional references and connections to support seeking after graduation employment. Paid, full-time employment provides income to offset costs of studies.