ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
BA3567 | Principles of Marketing | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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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 : | Prof. Dr. ELİF OKAN |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÜLBERK GÜLTEKİN SALMAN Prof. Dr. İPEK ALTINBAŞAK FARİNA Prof. Dr. ELİF OKAN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The objective of the course is to introduce the participants with the marketing concepts and theories in order to develop, evaluate and implement marketing management strategies in complex environments. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Explains the basic concepts and theories of the marketing discipline with an interdisciplinary perspective. 2. Understands the interaction between market and customer within the marketing system. 3. Knows the importance of marketing information and market research methods 4. Can explain why and how consumer behavior occurs 5. Knows market segmentation, targeting and positioning 6. Knows the elements of the marketing mix 7. Understands competitive analysis and marketing strategies on a global and local scale |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Understanding Marketingin Creating and Capturing Customer Value and how companies can use their marketing strategies with Partnering to Build Customer Relationships | |
2) | Analyzing the Marketing Environment And Managing Marketing Information to Gain Customer Insights | |
3) | Understanding Consumer Markets and Consumer Buyer Behavior | |
4) | Analyzing Business Markets and Business Buyer Behavior | |
5) | Knowing how to create Customer-Driven Marketing Strategy: Creating Value for Target Customers | |
6) | Understanding the strategies associated with Products, Services, and Brands: Building Customer Value | |
7) | Identifying the process of developing New Products and Managing the Product Life Cycle | |
8) | Learning to design Pricing Strategies in order to Understand and Capture Customer Value | |
9) | Identifying the ways to design Marketing Channels: Delivering Customer Value and the roles / functions of Retailing and Wholesaling | |
10) | Learning to Communicate Customer Value through the use of Advertising and Public Relations | |
11) | Understanding the effective use of Personal Selling,Sales Promotion ;Direct and Online Marketing in Building Direct Customer Relationships | |
12) | Finding ways in Creating Competitive Advantage | |
13) | Getting acquianted with The Global Marketplace | |
14) | Understanding the importance of Sustainable Marketing: Social Responsibility and Ethics |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Principles of Marketing, 14/E Kotler & Armstrong 2012 | Prentice Hall | Published: 01/27/2011 ISBN-10: 0132167123 | ISBN-13: 9780132167123 |
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Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 5 |
Quizzes | 3 | % 5 |
Homework Assignments | 7 | % 10 |
Presentation | 3 | % 15 |
Project | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 20 | % 20 |
Final | 25 | % 25 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 55 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 45 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Presentations / Seminar | 7 | 7 |
Midterms | 13 | 13 |
Final | 16 | 66 |
Total Workload | 128 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |