Promote yourself and your education. Through the Marketing Specialization, you will discover many strategies and ideas, from traditional to non-traditional, used by some of today's most successful marketing professionals. Through specific courses within the Marketing Specialization, you will build on your business competency. Through applications and online courses, you will be able to stay connected, improve your skill set, and apply lessons in real-time to your marketing efforts. Your specialization may require prerequisite course work. Please talk to your advisor for more information.
Explore different ways in which marketing and advertising shape our modern business world by adding a specialization in Marketing to your Bachelor's degree. You will expand your experience with branding, research, and consumer behavior with these four (4), three (3) credit courses listed below.
This course is designed to introduce students to the field of advertising as a promotional force with emphasis on institutions, planning, strategic practices, and tactical decisions made by advertising executives. It will also explore the various career opportunities including account executive, media buying, copywriting, production, and research.
Study and analysis of the marketing information system. Includes the organizational characteristics of marketing research, basic tools and procedures, and management science applications.
Examination of cultural, economic, and political factors that affect marketing of goods and services worldwide. Emphasis is on adapting the marketing strategies of domestic marketers to international operations and the institutional structure that exists in international markets. Marketing strategies of firms operation within these markets are also examined.
This course illustrates the psychological, socio-cultural, and decision-making aspects of consumer
behavior. Students study behavioral concepts, motivation, and the role of consumer behavior in our society.
An MBA in Marketing is a Master's degree in Business Administration that focuses on advanced study in marketing topics like branding, research, and consumer behavior. Common areas of learning within a Marketing MBA include marketing management, consumer and brand strategies, marketing and media strategies, global marketing, accounting and finance, market research, forecasting, statistics, and communication. Graduates with an MBA in Marketing may consider pursuing careers such as product managers, marketing executives, managers, and consultants in corporate, nonprofit, government, and other marketing environments.
To achieve your MBA in Marketing, you must complete these three (3), three (3) credit courses of the Marketing Specialization in addition to the core MBA courses.
This course builds on the leadership, business, and management concepts contained in the MBA program while introducing the principles and tools for managers to apply in the development, implementation, and review of marketing strategy for organizations. Topics include internal and external environmental analysis; value, competition, and strategic choice; strategic positioning; and implementation and control issues. In addition, the capstone project requires the generation and presentation of strategic marketing plan.
This course presents and analyzes the most critical issues of buyer behavior both for individual consumers and within the organizational environment. Priority is placed on the economic, psychometric, and sociometric factors that influence buyer behavior and the buyer decision process. Through analyzing and understanding buyer behavior, marketing managers can ultimately understand this process and actively influence strategic business decisions.
This course is designed to integrate theory and practice and develop students’ analytical skills in marketing research methodology. Students apply methods and techniques for the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of primary and secondary data toward the solution of current marketing problems.