COP4319 Fexprience - Experiential Marketing Communication and Case StudiesBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs NEW MEDIAGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
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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 Spring 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 : 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 be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.
2) To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.
3) To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.
4) To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.
5) To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.
6) To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.
7) To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.
8) To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.
9) To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.
10) To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.