BTEC HND in Advertising & Marketing Communications
Specialist Units for Advertising and Marketing Communication
Unit 18: Advertising and Promotion in Business
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the scope of marketing communications
- Understand the role and importance of advertising
- Understand below-the-line techniques and how they are used
- Be able to plan integrated promotional strategies.
Unit 19: Marketing Planning
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Be able to compile marketing audits
- Understand the main barriers to marketing planning
- Be able to formulate a marketing plan for a product or service
- Understand ethical issues in marketing.
Unit 20: Sales Planning and Operations
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the role of personal selling within the overall marketing strategy
- Be able to apply the principles of the selling process to a product or service
- Understand the role and objectives of sales management
- Be able to plan sales activity for a product or service.
Unit 32: Packaging in Graphic Design
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the types and different styles of packaging
- Understand the technology of current packaging manufacturing
- Be able to produce design solutions to packaging problems
- Be able to evaluate design solutions.
Unit 17: Products, Marketing and Advertising Media
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the marketing of products using advertising media
- Know about target markets
- Understand the factors influencing product development
- Understand the business context in which advertising operates.
Unit 14: Working with and Leading People
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Be able to use recruitment, selection and retention procedures
- Understand the styles and impact of leadership
- Be able to work effectively in a team
- Be able to assess the work and development needs of individuals.
Unit 41: Contemporary Issues in Marketing Management
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand the importance of relationship marketing in a contemporary business context
- Understand the role of marketing in non-traditional contexts
- Understand the importance of applying the extended marketing mix in the service sector
- Understand the reasons for the increasing emphasis on ethics and social responsibility in marketing.
Unit 16: Managing Communications, Knowledge and Information
Upon completion of this unit, students will:
- Understand how to assess information and knowledge needs
- Be able to create strategies to increase personal networking to widen involvement in the decision-making process
- Be able to develop communication processes
- Be able to improve systems relating to information and knowledge.

