Contemporary Marketing Practice: Ethics, Innovation, and Social Responsibility

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the role marketing plays within the organisational context and within society more broadly;
• the role of technology in providing insight into customers and innovation in marketing;
• key contemporary themes in marketing practice;
• the core skills required for a career in marketing.
• ethical marketing practices and an appreciation of the concepts of social responsibility and sustainability;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• provide critical accounts of specific examples of marketing practice;
• identify and research core issues in contemporary marketing;
• identify and use theory to support analysis of aspects for contemporary marketing.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify innovations in marketing practice;

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Peer Group Feedback

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Ongoing peer formative feedback on blogs (engaging with other students is part of assessment). Discussion sessions to provide feedback on ideas, including online peer feedback. Opportunity for tutorials to discuss essay ideas.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.