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MKT40560

Academic Year 2024/2025

Marketing (MKT40560)

Subject:
Marketing
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
8
Module Coordinator:
Dr Anshu Suri
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This course will introduce the students to the key elements and principles of marketing, equipping them with tools and insights to succeed as marketers in today’s complex business environments. Overall, this course will teach students how firms create value for their consumers, in accordance with the firm's own goals and competencies. Using a combination of theoretical knowledge and case studies, this course will enable students with frameworks that will help them take appropriate actions as contemporary marketers – from designing marketing strategies that are informed by the firms' competitive contexts, to designing a marketing mix that differentiates the firm in the marketplace.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

- Demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge about key marketing concepts and frameworks;
- Develop skills and ability to to critically analyze businesses’ external and internal environments in order to make strategic marketing decisions that create value for the consumers as well as the firm;
- Develop the capability to utilize market research methods that help businesses understand their consumers better;
- Utilize marketing frameworks to develop a marketing mix that achieves strategic objectives;
- Develop a strategic marketing plan for a product/service.

Indicative Module Content:

1. Introduction to marketing

2. Understanding the marketing environment

3. Generating consumer Insights

4. Developing target market differentiation strategies

5. Marketing research methods

6. Developing marketing offerings (the marketing mix)

7. Designing and managing marketing communications

8. Managing integrated marketing channels

9. Contemporary issues in marketing


Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

22

Specified Learning Activities

50

Autonomous Student Learning

100

Total

172


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures, case based learning, exams, and in-class student participation.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered

Not yet recorded.


Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Yuna Yang Lecturer / Co-Lecturer