Degree | Type | Year |
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Advertising and Public Relations | OB | 2 |
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The subject Advertising Creativity is the first subject specifically on creativity that we find in the curriculum of the degree. It is not defined, therefore, the need to have taken previous subjects before being able to access this one. However, and in line with the concept of accumulation of knowledge as subjects and courses of the degree are passed and that of lifelong learning, we do consider it relevant to mention that the subject works with knowledge in relation to the market, products and brands that students have previously acquired in the subject 103133 Marketing and Documentary Management. From a more practical point of view, it also recovers concepts introduced and worked on in the subjects 104894 Technologies and Persuasive Communication and 104895 Written, Oral and Audiovisual Expression of the first course in the part concerning the creation of advertising communication pieces.
At a theoretical level (knowledge acquisition):
- To introduce students to the concept of creativity in general and advertising creativity in particular.
- To be aware of the importance of strategy in the development of advertising creativity.
- To know the main elements of advertising creativity.
- To understand and have the ability to apply the different steps of the idea generation process.
At a practical level (acquisition of competences and skills):
- Be able to put into practice processes and techniques to produce ideas.
- Stimulate productive thinking and the production of ideas focused on the resolution of communicative problems.
- Generate innovative and applicable creative ideas to respond to specific problems.
- Elaborate creative advertising pieces focused on objectives and targets.
- To put theoretical knowledge into practice.
- To enable students to make decisions, manage time, work in heterogeneous groups and to present and defend their ideas in public.
- Acquire a professional vocabulary and lexicon.
- To begin to forge criteria in the selection and evaluation of ideas.
1. Creativity and communicative environment
2. The creative person
3. The advertising creation process: the advertiser's brief as a starting point for advertising creativity
4. Creative strategy and creative brief
5. The creative product. Communicative ideas and advertising campaigns
6. Let's land the idea: media, contact points and advertising pieces
7. Creative ideas evaluation
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practical sessions and seminars | 37.5 | 1.5 | CM15, CM16, CM17, KM17, KM20, KM21, CM15 |
Theoretical classes | 15 | 0.6 | CM15, CM16, CM17, KM17, KM20, KM21, CM15 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 7.5 | 0.3 | CM15, CM16, CM17, KM20, CM15 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Final course project, readings, exercises, preparation of presentations, individual study. | 82.5 | 3.3 | CM15, CM16, CM17, KM20, CM15 |
Methodology
The approach of the course in relation to learning is interactive and includes several activities:
Some of the sessions require the preparation of material before class and critical thinking during and after the session.
The main concepts of the course will be illustrated with cases and/or real examples with the main objective of learning the basic concepts related to advertising creativity.
The topics are organized sequentially, from the most generic topics (which act as a context) to the more specific ones. However, this organization may be altered due to unforeseen events that may force a change in the schedule.
The active participation of the students is essential for learning. Their participation is expected in the different sessions as well as their predisposition to share points of view and opinions and to debate on the cases/examples that are presented.
A detailed schedule outlining the content of each session will be presented on the first day of the course and will be available on the course’s Virtual Campus, where students will find all teaching materials that the teaching team deems appropriate and necessary information for effective course monitoring. Should the teaching modality change for reasons of force majeure, the teaching staff will inform students of any modifications to the course schedule and teaching methodologies.
Gender perspective and inclusive language
The course content will be sensitive to issues related to gender perspective and the use of inclusive language.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Course project | 40% | 3 | 0.12 | CM15, CM16, CM17, KM20 |
Creative profile project | 10% | 1 | 0.04 | CM17, KM21 |
Exercises | 20% | 1.5 | 0.06 | CM15, CM16, CM17, KM20, KM21 |
Theory exam | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | CM16, CM17, KM17, KM20, KM21 |
Continuous evaluation
The grade for the course will be obtained from the following concepts:
Theoretical exam: 30%
Course Project: 40%
Exercises (seminars): 20%
Project on advertising creatives and creatives: 10%
Requirements to pass the course
In order to be able to apply the percentages it is mandatory to pass the theoretical exam with a grade equal or higher than 5.
The course is passed if, once the exam has been passed, a grade equal to or higher than 5 is obtained by applying the percentages.
Continuous evaluation reassessment
Re-evaluation activities will be carried out during the period established for this task in the academic calendar.
According to regulations, students will be entitled to the recovery of the subject if they have been evaluated of the set of activities, the weight of which is a minimum of 2/3 parts of the total grade of the subject.
Students who obtain a grade lower than 5 in the exam will have to take the reassigment exam.
Not recoverable: The course work, given its importance, is not recoverable. Neither is the work related to creative and/or creative advertising. These projects involve work processes, from the point of view of information search, analysis, production and presentation, which cannot be carried out in the period established for re-evaluation activities.
Exercises are only recoverable if 1) they have not been done for justified reasons of force majeure (this does not include leisure trips, vacations, outings...), 2) if, once the requirement of passing the exam is fulfilled, when applying the percentages, the final grade of the course does not reach 5. In this case, the failed practicals can be recovered by doing exercises on the same subject of the practicals that did not reach the pass mark.
In cases of re-evaluation, the final grade will not exceed 6.9.
It is not contemplated the possibility of taking a recovery to raise the grade.
Single evaluation
This course provides for a single assessment system, which includes the following evaluable activities:
The details and content of each activity will be detailed to students who request this type of evaluation.
Single evaluation reassessment
According to regulations, in order to participate in the re-evaluation process, students must have been previously evaluated in at least 2/3 of the total number of evaluable activities of the course.
Students who obtain a grade lower than 5 in the exam must take the reassessment exam.
In the single evaluation only the possibility of recovering the exam is contemplated. The other projects involve work processes, from the point of view of information search, analysis, production and presentation, which cannot be carried out in the period established for re-evaluation activities.
In cases of re-evaluation, the final grade will not exceed 6.9.
It is not contemplated the possibility of taking a re-evaluation to raise the grade.
Not evaluable (Continuous evaluation)
It will be considered that the course is not evaluable if any of the following assumptions are fulfilled:
Not evaluable (single evaluation)
The subject will be considered not evaluable ifany of the following assumptions are fulfilled:
Plagiarism
In the event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that could be instructed. In the event, that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.In the event that the student performs any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation of an evaluation act, this evaluation act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that could be instructed. In the event, that several irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches, text correction, translations or the use as a tool in order to improve your project or presentation (e.g. image generation, video). In any case, precise instructions in this regard will be given in each practice. Students must clearly identify any parts generated with these technologies, specify the tools used, and include a critical opinion on how AI has influenced the process and final outcome of the assignment. Failure to disclose the use of AI in this assessed activity will be considered a breach of academic integrity and may result in a partial or total penalty to the assignment grade, or more serious sanctions in severe cases.
Any student suspected of submitting work that includes AI generated content may be asked for preliminary work or other materials to evidence the student’s original and unaided authorship. The student may also be asked to separately explain or support their work. AI identification methods may also be employed by the professors. After review, if it is determined by the instructor that submitted work likely contains AI generated content, the work may receive a zero and the student may be subject to further misconduct measures.
Alonso, Carmen M. (2008). Cómo anunciar. Manual para creativos publicitarios. LC.
This subject does not require any specific software.
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 51 | Catalan/Spanish | second semester | afternoon |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 52 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 53 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |
(TE) Theory | 5 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |
(TE) Theory | 90 | Catalan | second semester | afternoon |