PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PUBLICITY
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
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: En
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Instructor SİNEM İNCE
Course Lecturer(s): Instructor SİNEM İNCE
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 Outputs

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: 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
Attendance % 0
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments 2 % 10
Presentation % 0
Project % 0
Seminar % 0
Midterms 1 % 30
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final 1 % 60
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
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
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 0 0 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Presentations / Seminar 0 0 0
Project 8 3 24
Homework Assignments 2 9 18
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0 0 0
Midterms 0 0 0
Paper Submission 0 0 0
Jury 0 0 0
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 prepare the students to become communication professionals by focusing on strategic thinking, professional writing, ethical practice and innovative use of traditional and new media
2) To be able to create effective public relations plans using fundamental planning components that include situation analysis, public profile, objectives, strategies and tactics.
3) To be able to apply theoretical concepts related to mass communication, consumer behavior, psychology, persuasion,sociology, marketing, and other related fields to understand how public realtions works.
4) To be able to have the ability to explain and identify problems associated with the relationships between events and facts in the areas of public relations, persuasive communication, communication management, corporate communications.
5) To be able to analyze primary and secondary research data in the fields of perception and reputation management and corporate communication practices.
6) To be able to search, write, and design articles, newsletters, and fliers, brochures, and announcements, in styles and formats appropraite various audiences, mediums and settings.
7) To be able to apply the underlying theories of communication and the necessities of work safety to different types of public relations processes and campaigns.
8) To be able to develop creative and persuasive management skills in terms of reputation, employee relations, leadership and similar corporate practices.
9) To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity or as a team in generating solutions to given scenarios which can occur in public relations processes.
10) To be able to understand how an organizational culture works and how employees and leaders create messages as a communication tool.
11) To be able to critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools and ideas in the field of public relations.
12) To be able to to use information, communication technologies and computer software with the required level of public relations, marketing communication, persuasive communication, communication management, corporate communications.
13) To be able to explain and describe business marketing activities, economics, business law and global business practices.
14) To be able to recognize national and international, social and cultural dimensions of public relations.