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QB55M1: STRATEGIC MARKETING (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:04


Course Overview

The course aims to provide participants with a critical understanding of the nature and articulation of the marketing function within modern organisations, and an appreciation of the relative contribution of specific marketing tools to the development of a market orientation.

On completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Critique the key principles and concepts of marketing.

2. Evaluate the role of marketing to modern organisations in private and public sectors.

3. Understand the integration of the marketing function with other organisational functions.

4. Assess the role of identified marketing techniques

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Offshore Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Anthony Grimes

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course aims to provide students with a critical understanding of the nature and articulation of the marketing function within modern organisations, and an appreciation of the relative contribution of specific marketing tools to the development of a market orientation. It will set marketing management within the overall context of strategic planning. Building on the underpinning marketing concepts, the course will develop students’ in-depth understanding of the structure and articulation of marketing within a range of diverse organisational settings, including, consumer, industrial, service and voluntary sectors. Specifically the course will encourage students to adopt a systems perspective in addressing key marketing techniques and approaches, and recognise the close inter-relationship between marketing and other management functions in modern organisations.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
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Feedback Word Count 1500
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Formative Assessment

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Resit Assessments

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Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Feedback Word Count 1500
Learning Outcomes
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Course Learning Outcomes

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