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PRL3001 Public Relations Campaign Development

Semester 1, 2022 Online
Units : 1
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
School or Department : School of Humanities & Communication
Grading basis : Graded
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Requisites

Pre-requisite: PRL2012 or PRL3012

Overview

This course is essential to building your knowledge and skills as a public relations practitioner. Campaigns, whether big or small, are part of the practitioner’s professional role. Therefore, it is vital to understand how to develop a campaign plan effectively, undertake credible research and apply evaluation methods that will allow you to assess whether or not you have achieved your campaign goals and objectives.

Campaign development is focused on the RAISE theory of research, adaptation, implementation strategy and evaluation. The course examines each phase closely and relates this to the development stages in your own campaign plan.

The knowledge and skills gathered in this course will form the foundation for the final course in the public relations program, HMT3001/3002.

Public Relations Campaign Development provides advanced professional preparation for students in public relations. The course builds on theory and practice taught previously in the major. As public relations professionals, students need to understand salient public relations theories and practices, how public relations strategies originate and their usefulness and shortcomings in explaining, predicting and organising public relations campaigns.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  1. explain and apply key public relations and related theories;
  2. describe, explain and apply public relations campaign planning processes;
  3. describe the strengths and weaknesses of key contemporary public relations practices in the context of their applicability to various problems;
  4. describe and apply research in the design, application and evaluation of an applied public relations project;
  5. describe and apply public relations strategies and tools/tactics and be able to differentiate the strategic from the tactical;
  6. develop a campaign in which the concepts and theories in this course are embedded;
  7. communicate in writing at an advanced level by planning and delivering a theoretical discussion and a campaign plan;
  8. demonstrate management, planning and organisational skills by planning and developing specific outcomes, applying their learning to a specific context, and judging their own performance;
  9. ethical research and inquiry skills by planning a research methodology for their campaign;
  10. work effectively as part of a team.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Introduction to public relations campaigns 10.00
2. Building the campaign plan: the research stage , research for campaign planning, research methodology, cases and problems 25.00
3. Building the campaign plan: the adaptation stage, organisational culture setting goals, infrastructure and support 20.00
4. Building the campaign plan: the strategy stage, developing the campaign , implementation strategy, designing the plan cases and problems 20.00
5. Building the campaign plan: the evaluation plan 15.00
6. Advanced public relations challenges 10.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

Austin, EW & Pinkleton, BE 2015, Strategic public relations management: planning and managing effective communication programs, 3rd edn, Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey.
PRL3001 Public relations campaign development: study package, »ÆƬ¿´Æ¬ÉñÆ÷, Toowoomba.

Student workload expectations

To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.

Assessment details

Description Weighting (%)
ASSIGNMENT 1 TEAM PLAN 10
ASSIGNMENT 2 RESEARCH REPORT 40
ASSIGNMENT 3 CAMPAIGN DEV & GR 50
Date printed 10 February 2023