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
ADV3633	Cases in Marketing Communication	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 :	Instructor HAKKI PINAR KILIÇ
Course Lecturer(s):	Instructor HAKKI PINAR KILIÇ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course’s aim is to stimulate the students on the ever-expanding world of the marketing communication and familiarize them with the importance of the relationship marketing and integrated communication. Also special emphasis will be given to prepare and analyze business plans, marketing plans, and advertising plans

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
-To understand the new trends in marketing
-Develop competency on interpreting the communication tools
-To analyze how the consumers decide -To understand how to develop a brand and sustain it -How to compete with private brands
-How and when to use different communication tools
-To plan and design media plans for the communication tools
-How to evaluate a communication plan

Course Content

Students will be familiarized with the different tools of integrated marketing communications and will learn when and how to apply these tools. Also they will learn to develop strtegies and make plans ny usinh these tools.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	How to Prepare Effective Marketing Plan?
2)	How SWOT and PEST can help you?	Buying a Wedding Dress in e-Bay (Case)
3)	Positioning in high and low involvement products
4)	A new concept: Demand Chain	Zara case
5)	How you can understand a consumer?
6)	A new approach to consumer: Pulse	Exporting Olive Oil (case)
7)	Financial Aspects of Marketing
8)	Branding	Migros Private Brands
9)	How to write Effective Briefings?
10)	How to Prepare Effective Business Plan?	Volvo
11)	Pazarlamanın 4 P'si öldü mü?
12)	How to Prepare Effective Advertising Plan?	Starbucks
13)	How to prepare a communication plan
14)	Final Exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

References:

1. Marketing Communications Engagement, Strategies and Practice
Chris Fill, Prentice Hall/Financial Times
2. Integrated Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing Communications
Kenneth E.Clow & Donald Baack
3. Management in Turkey: Cases and Challenges
Donald N. Thompson
Gazi Kitapevi, Ankara

4, The New Marketing Paradigm.
Integrated Marketing Communications
Don E. Schultz, Stanley I Tannenbaum, Robert F. Lauterborn
5. Best Practice Cases in Branding
Kevin Lane Keller
Pearson Prentice Hall

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	6	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
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	6	3	18
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			133

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.	4
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.	3
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.	3