ADV4632 Global AdvertisingBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
ADV4632 Global Advertising Fall 3 0 3 5
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖNDER YÖNET
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖNDER YÖNET
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course concentrates on creating an understanding on globalization,international markets,marketing across the borders, global advertising and integrated marketing communication strategies worldwide. Students will be able to understand ;
a) historical,social,cultural and economical development of globalization
b) basic principles and practices of global advertising
c) the paradoxes faced by global marketers and agencies in creating strategies and campaigns to communicate with different cultures.
d) when and how to standardize communication strategy,how to choose an agency for global brands.
e) “think gobal,act local”
f) the application of cultural differences/dimensions (of Geert Hofstede) to the global advertisements

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To distinguish going global and recognize the brief history of 21st century
2) To appraise the globalization of the markets
3) To explain global branding
4) To develop global communication strategies and planning
5) To differentiate the main advertising agencies and their works worldwide
6) To determine global media and messaging
7) To discriminate advertising regulatory considerations in the global arena
8) To integrate social responsibility and ethics in the global marketplace
9) To evaluate and comment on any given case study in global advertising.

Course Content

This course aims to teach the students the current and future positioning of advertising in the context of global integrated marketing communications efforts. The students taking this course will gain the necessary theoretical knowledge to work in international advertising agencies and companies both in Turkey and Worldwide.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) Going Global, Brief History of 21st century Markets Reading material
3) Globalization of markets Political,Economical,Cultural,Technological Factors and Competition, Homogenization of consumer needs and tastes, Culture and how advertising works, Advertising Industry None
4) Global Brand: The perception of global Brands, Global Branding Strategies, Brand positioning, Standardization Reading material
5) Global Communication Strategies and Planning - handing homework 1 in Preparation for homework 1
6) Advertising Agencies in Global Market Reading material
7) Global Media and Messaging - The brief for final project None
8) Review Review of the previous subjects
9) Advertising Regulatory Considerations in the Global Arena Reading material
10) Social Responsibility and Ethics in the Global Marketplace - handing homework 2 in Preparation for homework 2
11) Global Ad cases: American Advertising Reading material
12) Global Ad Cases: European Advertising None
13) Global Ad Cases: Russia,China,Japan,Indian,etc. Reading material
14) Turkish Advertising Cases None

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Zorunlu Ders Kitabı/Required Text Book: De Mooij Marieke (1997) , Global Marketing and Advertising: Understanding Global Paradoxes, Sage Pub.

Ders notları/okumalar:Okumaların okunması zorunludur ! Okumalar dersin en önemli bölümünü oluşturmaktadır. Tartışılacak okuma bir hafta önce öğrencilere verilmektedir.

Course notes: It is compulsory to read the reading material !
The readings make the most important part of the course. The reading, which will be discussed, will be handed out one week earlier.
References: Kotler, Philip & Keller, Kevin Lane
(2006) Marketing Management, 12/E, Prentice Hall

Mueller Barbara ( 2001), International Advertising: Communicating across Cultures,Wadsworth Pub.

Clow E. Kenneth, Baack Donald ( 2001), Integrated Advertising, Promotion & Marketing Communications, Prentice Hall

Friedman L. Thomas ( 2005), World is Flat, Farrar,Straus and Giroux Pub.

Richard Nisbett (2004), The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why, Free Press.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments 2 % 10
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 50
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 50
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 5 70
Homework Assignments 2 6 12
Midterms 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
Total Workload 130

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2) Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3) Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4) Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5) Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6) Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7) Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8) Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9) Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10) Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11) Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12) Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13) Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.