Marketing

Course Structure

1. gain a critical perspective on standard marketing management concepts and principles and reappraise their effectiveness and relevance in the light of contemporary marketing issues.
2. explore current ideas within marketing scholarship and practice concerning the consumption of brands.
3. examine theoretical advances and emerging strategic issues and explore wider global culture industry perspectives that holds that there is a meditational brand and consumer culture; to encourage eclectic perspectives and consider marketing practice as impacting upon wider cultural frameworks.
4. gain an intuitive understanding of statistical methods that will help develop a critical (albeit respectful) understanding of empirical research.
5. learn how to produce and interpret descriptive statistics and associated tables and graphs by helping them to develop the ability to use inferential analysis and hypothesis testing techniques. This will help students to master the basic techniques for measuring statistical relationships between variables and develop skills for using statistical software package and impart the confidence and taste for empirical research in marketing.
6. develop a critical understanding of the different methodological perspectives on research design and the ability to use a variety of qualitative research techniques, including observation, interviewing and case studies and identify the key ethical issues posed by particular research designs. This will help you use various methods such as observation, interviewing and case studies, allowing the ability to outline a research plan.
7. able to plan and manage a project
8. define aims and objectives
9. identify appropriate data sources and collection methods
10. be aware of and deal with potential pitfalls, execute a dissertation plan, and construct an effective argument.
11. introduce you to the basic marketing theories and practices necessary for the successful running of art galleries. Attention is drawn to arts consumption and consumers, with reference to arts organizations in the private, public, and voluntary sectors.
12. develop a deep understanding of industrial marketing theory and how it is different from consumer marketing.
13. Understand how the marketing mix can be manipulated by industrial marketing managers by reviewing theory and engaging with a variety of case studies.
14. gain the skills and knowledge to understand the interactions that occur between the market, consumers and the marketplace. The focus centres on how particular manifestations of culture are constituted, maintained and transformed by broader forces such as cultural narratives, myths, ideologies & grounded in specific socioeconomic circumstances and marketplace systems.
15. work with popular texts such as The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer as well as with complex theoretical concepts including Consumer Culture Theory, Symbolic Consumption and the Production of Culture.
16. examine the role of digital media within contemporary marketing practice and its impact on marketing theory.
17. learn how new technologies have paved the way for consumers to embrace new media and have also allowed organisations to develop new markets and strategies to push their business forward.
18. develop knowledge and practical experience of digital media and marketing concepts available via these developing technologies.
19. examine examine the principal means of marketing communications \x96 advertising, promotion, public relations, direct marketing and sales teams.
20. develop an understanding of the contemporary media environment and how this impacts on marketers\x92 efforts to communicate with stakeholders. An important theme that will be examined is how communication should change when dealing with different segments, and entering markets with different communication cultures (particularly overseas).
21. Develop a critical understanding of the scope and nature of marketing ethics.
22. Identify and evaluate moral issues that arise both in day-to-day marketing mix decisions and in the ideology of marketing management more broadly.
23. explore the complex marketing relationships that exist in both not-for-profit and public sector marketing.
24. evaluate and analyse the debates and controversies with the rise of marketing discourses around not-for-profit and public sector organizations.
25. develop an understanding of the unique application of marketing principles and processes to the sports industry. Two themes are considered: sports as product and sports as medium.
26. developed a systematic understanding of marketing practice together with a critical awareness of current issues at the forefront of marketing in society
27. evaluated critically the relevant academic literature
28. evaluated research methodologies and undertaken research into marketing in society
29. developed a theoretical and empirical knowledge of marketing and employed a variety of academically based marketing techniques and practices
30. acquired a range of conceptual, technical and personal skills
31. developed an understanding of the use and value of the case study method.