This course explores decisions facing retail buyers, managers and owners as well as electronic retailers. Topics include retailing trends, merchandise management, pricing, location, promotion, store design and customer service. Prerequisites: MARKETNG 300 or 301

The theory and technology of marketing for non-profit organizations and services. Application of traditional tools, distinguishing services and non-profits from regular marketing situations. Involves substantial case discussion. Prerequisites: MARKETNG 300 or 301

The theory and technology of marketing for non-profit organizations and services. Application of traditional tools, distinguishing services and non-profits from regular marketing situations. Involves substantial case discussion. Prerequisites: MARKETNG 300 or 301

As recent advances in technology have affected nearly every facet of marketing, digitization has revolutionized marketing strategy. Big data, social media networks and new monitoring tools to measure customer journeys are revolutionizing the way consumers and brands engage in online conversations. This course is designed to introduce new theoretical frameworks emerging from digital marketing, covering in detail topics such as search marketing, customer experience analytics, social media marketing, and recommendation systems.

Marketers use a broad array of evolving tools, from Direct Mail to Social Media. In this course, students learn about the range of these tools, related data sources, and online and offline metrics for evaluating their success. The course stresses combining different marketing resources (for example, bricks and mortar stores with online channels; online landing pages to test offline media with google analytics).

This course is designed for students to acquire Professional Selling Skills by utilizing a theory to practice approach. Students will engage in a number of in-class activities designed to strengthen their understanding of the sales process and MASTER the skills needed to EXCEL in today's business world. This course embraces technology and students will be exposed to a wide variety of sales tools during the course of the semester.

The most important asset of a company is its brand, which can be utilized to create a long-term competitive advantage in the market. Therefore, companies invest an ample amount of time and money developing and nurturing their brands. Thus, this course will focus on providing students with the knowledge of fundamental principles of brand management as well as teaching how to define, develop, and apply strategies to manage a brand successfully, and to create, measure, sustain, and grow the brand equity.

Development of effective marketing communication strategies based on an understanding of the characteristics of audiences; conceptual material from communications theory applied to advertising and other promotional problems.

Technology is at the center of many valuable marketing tools and practices. For example, marketers commonly use social media, such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram; and with various technologies, new approaches and principles have emerged, such as permission marketing and inbound marketing. New types, and increased amounts, of data associated with consumer use of technologies has made marketing analytics vital to effective decision making and performance diagnostics and evaluation (e.g., ROI).

Introduces primary and secondary data collection and analysis as a means to assess consumer behavior and develop effective marketing strategies; incorporates the use of technology in data collection and analysis. Prerequisites: MARKETNG 301; STATISTC 140 or 141 or RES-ECON 211 or 212.