The purpose of this course is to help students develop a working knowledge of marketing. Students will learn about the role marketing plays in an organization, as well as how to plan, implement and evaluate marketing activities. This course builds a foundation for further study in marketing and related fields.

Prerequisite: You must be a Business major (any concentration), a business minor or in one of the following majors: Coms/Pub Relations, CM, MET, FACS (Apparel Mktg/Design), FACS (Cons Sci), FASH, GPHD, INTD (Mktg), Rec & Park Mgmt, Photography to enroll in this course.

The course covers current developments in marketing analytics. Topics include methodologies for market forecasting, estimating market size, and demand; evaluating marketing ROI and customer life time value; modeling of segmentation, positioning, competitive analysis, conjoint analysis, distribution channel analytics, and sales analytics. Students will also learn the latest datamining tools to collect, analyze, and visualize data for decision making and communicating to senior executives.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101; and either DS 101 or MKTG 121; or instructor permission

Examines the acquisition of information for marketing management decision making, including methods of collection and analysis applicable to secondary and primary data, as this process relates to the management information system. Seminar.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101.

Corequisite: DS 101

Understanding buying as a process in order to develop more effective solutions to marketing problems; an interdisciplinary approach drawing on insights from the behavioral sciences; applications to practical marketing situations. Seminar.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101.

Managerial function of evaluating public attitudes toward business firms and other organizations and institutions, and of adjusting policies and executing programs to earn public acceptance and support. Media and method of communicating with the various publics, and problems in responsible leadership.

Development, trends, and institutions of retailing; organization and management of retail establishments; principles and policies of retail store operations including location and layout, planning and control of budgets, personnel, pricing and customer services.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101.

Examination of advertising as a marketing communications tool in profit and nonprofit organizations. Emphasis will be placed on creative methods, alternative media, measurements of effectiveness, and coordination with other aspects of the marketing program through class discussion and written projects. Seminar.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101.

Application of marketing principles to the solution of a wide variety of problems and cases including target markets, product selection, channels of distribution, promotion and pricing.

Note: It is a capstone course. It is recommended that students take MKTG 121 and MKTG 122 prior to taking MKTG 129. Seminar.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101 and senior status.

The purpose of this course is to help students learn and apply emerging marketing techniques to become efficient and effective marketers in the 21st century. Topics covered center on effective marketing in an online environment to help students refine their strategic marketing skills, ability to work effectively in diverse teams, and understanding of the local marketing environment.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101 and Business majors or Marketing minors only.

The purpose of this course is to help students to integrate principles of marketing and sports industry management. It examines the marketing of sports, teams, athletes, sport arenas, as well as the use of sports related marketing tools (such as sponsorships, celebrity athlete endorsements, promotional licensing) for promoting non-sport consumer and industrial products.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101

Study of the major principles of quality management: customer focus, continuous improvement, employee involvement, and process improvement. Use of case studies and a project to gain knowledge in implementing quality management principles. Seminar.

Delivery of enhanced customer and economic value through synchronized management of the flow of physical goods and associated information from sourcing through consumption. Examines the management of those activities that facilitate the movement, control and direction of goods and services to create time, place, form and ownership utilities in the global market. Topics include transportation, warehousing, information systems, sourcing, strategic alliances, modeling, purchasing and international operations.

Prerequisite: OPM 101.

Focuses on effective operations strategies for companies that operate in a dynamic business environment, with an emphasis on in-depth treatments of the decision situations facing managers in charge of related to the planning and control of the flow of goods and services in supply chain systems.

Prerequisite: OPM 101.

Environmental factors affecting international trade, such as culture and business customs, political factors and constraints, economic development and legal differences, are integrated with the marketing management functions of market potential, analysis marketing research, international organization, channels and distribution, sales promotion, prices, credit, and financing.

Prerequisite: MKTG 101 or instructor permission.