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ENGL7615 - Content Marketing: Strategy, Creation, and Social Media Management
Instructor(s)
Semester
2025-2026 First Semester
Credits
6.00
Contact Hours per week
2
Form of Assessment
100% coursework
Time
Tuesday , 3:00 pm - 4:50 pm , CPD-LG.54 (HKU Black Box)
Wednesday , 10:00 am - 11:50 am , CRT-7.58
Course Description

This course offers a hands-on, team-based approach to content marketing in the digital era. Students work in groups to design, pitch, and deliver thematic campaigns for a shared social media account, as well as a conceptual brand. Through campaign planning, branded content creation, analytics, and engagement strategies, students learn to combine creative expression with strategic communication, maintaining consistent tone and style across diverse projects.

Objectives

  • Understand and apply key principles of contemporary content marketing.
  • Develop creative and strategic skills for social media storytelling.
  • Collaborate effectively in producing brand-consistent digital campaigns.
  • Analyse audience engagement and apply insights to improve outcomes.
  • Reflect critically on creative process, ethics, and cultural implications.
Organisation

Tutorials require mandatory attendance.

Weekly tutorials are structured as 50% teaching and 50% hands-on workshop, offering both conceptual grounding and practical skill-building. Required readings are assigned from the outset and directly correspond to each week’s topic, forming a basis for in-class activities and discussions.

Students are expected to complete corresponding readings before class; their understanding and analysis will be evaluated through active participation in tutorials. Recommended readings are provided to broaden perspectives and encourage deeper exploration 

Assessment

Participation and tutorial contribution                                                             10%

Group campaign proposal & presentation with peer feedback                    30%

Group campaign                                                                                                  30%

Individual critical essay                                                                                      30%


Instructor(s)
Semester
2025-2026 First Semester
Credits
6.00
Contact Hours per week
2
Form of Assessment
100% coursework
Time
Tuesday , 3:00 pm - 4:50 pm , CPD-LG.54 (HKU Black Box)
Wednesday , 10:00 am - 11:50 am , CRT-7.58