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Marketing Principles & Practice - MAN00013I

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  • Department: The York Management School
  • Module co-ordinator: Mr. Tim Chapman
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: I
  • Academic year of delivery: 2020-21

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching cycle
A Autumn Term 2020-21

Module aims

This module combines both academic study and practical content. The academic element of the module is covered through a weekly lecture on marketing theories and techniques, from which students should gain an understanding of marketing principles. The practical content draws upon case studies and marketing briefs/activities to explore marketing in practice. This module aims in particular, to guide student marketers through the marketing planning process and covers a broad structured approach which relates marketing principles to practice.

Module learning outcomes

  • Successful completion of the module will demonstrate the students are able to:
  • Understand the concepts of marketing and the principles that underpin marketing techniques
  • Demonstrate an ability to evaluate and critique marketing concepts
  • Analyse the marketing function of an organisation and understand how it is integral to the success ofthat organisation
  • Demonstrate an ability to analyse the marketing environment using marketing concepts and techniques
  • Understand the relevance to organisations and the stages involved in the marketing planning process and of its application

Module content

The module uses the flipped classroom approach. Students have access to course material online (e.g. ppt presentations, reading list, case studies) at the beginning of the term. Each seminar covers a case study applying a part of the marketing plan.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Not-online take-home exam
Open Assessment		 N/A 40
Not-online take-home exam
Open Assessment		 N/A 60

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Marketing Report		 N/A 100

Module feedback

Students will receive a feedback sheet with detailed comments on their summative assessments. Turnaround time for summative assessment is 4 weeks. The two parts of the assessment are not related, feedback on the first summative is not needed to undertake the second summative. At the end of the term the module leader will develop a report on the module which, once approved by the Board of Exams, will be uploaded onto VLE and made accessible to the students.

Indicative reading

Jobber and Ellis Chadwick (2013) Principles and Practice of Marketing 7th Ed McGraw Hill
McDonald and Wilson, (2011) Marketing Plans: How to prepare them, how to use them, John Wiley and Sons

Wood, M.B. (2004). Marketing Planning- principles into practice, Prentice Hall.

 


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