Contemporary Marketing Practice: Ethics, Innovation, and Social Responsibility

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the core skills required for a career in marketing.
• the role marketing plays within the organisational context and within society more broadly;
• ethical marketing practices and an appreciation of the concepts of social responsibility and sustainability;
• the role of technology in providing insight into customers and innovation in marketing;
• key contemporary themes in marketing practice;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify and research core issues in contemporary marketing;
• identify and use theory to support analysis of aspects for contemporary marketing.
• provide critical accounts of specific examples of marketing practice;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify innovations in marketing practice;

1. Introduction to contemporary marketing practice

2. Marketing in the organizational context and in society

3. Ethical marketing practices and social responsibility

4. Customer insights and the role of technology in marketing

5. Core marketing concepts: branding, pricing, distribution, and international marketing

6. Innovation, creativity, and core skills for marketing success: market analysis, marketing strategy, and implementation planning

Teaching methods include:

Although the module contains interactive lectures and directed readings you are encouraged to actively engage in the subject matter through guided self-discovery of the material and to share this with our peers.

Learning activities include:

• Interactive lectures and discussion
• In class and online debate
• Development and maintenance of a shared learning space
• Peer review and discussion on online material

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Peer Group Feedback

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Ongoing peer formative feedback on blogs (engaging with other students is part of assessment). Discussion sessions to provide feedback on ideas, including online peer feedback. Opportunity for tutorials to discuss essay ideas.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.