COP4319 Fexprience - Experiential Marketing Communication and Case StudiesBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs SOCIOLOGYGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
SOCIOLOGY
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
COP4319 Fexprience - Experiential Marketing Communication and Case Studies Fall 3 0 3 5
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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 : Instructor SİNEM İNCE
Course Lecturer(s): Instructor SİNEM İNCE
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course aims to provide relational bonds of corporate and its target audience with communication activities, supporting the relation management, giving pleasure to the audience, make experiences with aesthetic aspect, create a value on target audience perception as marketing communication strategy, by teaching the importance of experiential marketing principles and practices.Students will produce their own experiential marketing communication by learning the bacis steps be considered experiental marketing based on event preparation.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Students taking this course can,
1) Define the concept of experiential marketing
2) Reveal the difference of experiential marketing communications from other communication activities
3) Can apply the steps of experiential marketing communication campaigns.
4) Learn the types of events that will be used for experiential marketing.
5) Learn the factors that should be considered for planning and realization the event
6) Create experiential marketing events appropriate for a corporate or a brand

Course Content

In this course students will learn the definition of experiential marketing communication, functions, principles and steps, the rules of the event management, event organizing methods, applyingexperiential marketing events and measuring.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) What is experiental marketing? Why it is needed? Basic issues in marketing commuication and the position of expreriental marketing in communication (Guest Participant: Ugur Batı)
2) Where is the event in experiential marketing? (Guest participant: Bülent Fidan)
3) How is experiential marketing planned? What are the steps that must be considered? (Guest participant: Coca-Cola)
4) Comparison of examples of experiential marketing between Turkey and the world.
5) What is event based on experience? Students begin to plan the communication of experiential marketing for a brand.
6) What are types of events? (Guest participant: Event Manager of Anadolu Efes)
7) What are the factors that must be considered during an event? (Guest participant: Co-manager of Pozitif Event Company) Students begin to plan an event.
8) How is an event planned? (Guest participant: Gnctrkcll)
9) How is the time and place of an event planned? (Guest participant: Boogy Event Agency)
10) What are the things that you need to pay attention to in order to match your activity with technology? (Guest participant: Founder of Visionteractive)
11) The importance of building relationship with the event and social media (Guest participant: Coca-Cola).
12) What are the possible crises that can occur in an event? How are crises managed? (Guest participant: Nike)
13) Evaluation and reporting of event (Guest pariticpant: Anadolu Efes)
14) Students present their experiential marketing communication projects that are prepared in accordance with weekly steps.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Markethink Ya Da Farkethink: "Deneyimsel Pazarlama ve Duyusal Markalama" - Uğur Batı / Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, Relate - Bernd H. Schmitt / The experience Economy - B. Joseph Pine
References: Experiential Marketing: A Practical Guide to Interactive Brand Experiences - Shaz Smilansky / Örneklerle Temel Deneyimsel Pazarlama - Taşkın Dirsehan

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments 2 % 10
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 60
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Project 8 3 24
Homework Assignments 2 9 18
Final 1 1 1
Total Workload 127

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) To learn and compare major sociology perspectives, both classical and contemporary, and apply all of them to analysis of social conditions.
2) To be able to identify the basic methodological approaches in building sociological and anthropological knowledge at local and global levels
3) To be able to use theoretical and applied knowledge acquired in the fields of statistics in social sciences.
4) To have a basic knowledge of other disciplines (including psychology, history, political science, communication studies and literature) that can contribute to sociology and to be able to make use of this knowledge in analyzing sociological processes
5) To have a knowledge and practice of scientific and ethical principles in collecting, interpreting and publishing sociological data also develop ability how to share this data with experts and lay people, using effective communication skills
6) To develop competence in analyzing and publishing sociological knowledge by using computer software for quantitative and qualitative analysis; and develop an attitute for learning new techniques in these fields.
7) To identify and to have a knowledge of the theories related to urban and rural sociology and demography, and political sociology, sociology of gender, sociology of body, visual sociology, sociology of work, sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge and sociology of crime.
8) To have knowledge of how sociology is positioned as a scientific discipline from a philosophical and historical perspective
9) To have the awareness of social issues in Turkish society, to develop critical perspective in analysing these issues and to have a knowledge of the works of Turkish sociologists and to be able to transfer this knowledge
10) To have the awareness of social issues and global societal processes and to apply sociological analysis to development and social responsibility projects
11) To have the ability to define a research question, design a research project and complete a written report for various fields of sociology, either as an individual or as a team member.
12) To be able to transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of sociology to the level of secondary school.