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MKT 615 - Marketing Strategies
   This course focuses on domestic and global market opportunities while being sensitive to quality issues, ethical issues, and technological changes. The course integrates traditional marketing concepts and the challenging marketing strategies of today. Topics to be covered include customer satisfaction, relationship building, managing marketing processes, global thinking, building strategic alliances, and online marketing.

MKT 626 - International Marketing
   The course is a systematic treatment of marketing on a global scale. It is advanced and managerially oriented, with an overall objective of developing analytical and decision-making skills in international marketing. The course examines specific issues involved in entering overseas markets and in conducting marketing operations on an international as opposed to a "domestic" scale. Attention is focused on cultural similarities and differences and the variability of the marketing environment around the world; the basics of international trade and economics; and managing the major elements of the international marketing process.
  
Prerequisite: MKT 615 or equivalent.

MKT 627 - Current Topics in Marketing
   The marketing environment is changing fast. These new marketing changes signify a brand new world of proliferating opportunities and proliferating threats. Technological advances are a double-edged sword. They create opportunities and they destroy opportunities. Savvy companies recognize that a major revolution is taking place in markets and marketing.
   This course will cover current-event articles, case exercises, marketing Internet resources/helpful sites, and videos to illustrate how current developments in marketing and marketing concepts affect the real business world. The course will also show how the World Wide Web and E-Commerce are dramatically altering the marketing landscape. At the same time, this course continues to build on fundamental principles of marketing.
  
Prerequisite: MKT 615 or equivalent.

MKT 653 - Advanced Consumer Behavior  
   This course examines consumer evaluation of purchasing alternatives and decision making and the marketing organization’s role in influencing those decisions.  Further, students will explore contemporary customer-centered marketing approaches directed at building consumer loyalty.  An organization-wide perspective will lead students to recognize internal as well as external organizational issues that ultimately impact consumer decision making.

MKT 701 - Visual Communication in Business
   This course provides an introduction to principles of visual communication applied to the environment of business from a marketing and branding perspective. The course focuses on how sound design principles are used to establish visual information for communicating a consistent corporate/business identity. The principles include the study of logo design, typography, document design, use of color, and graphical information display. The course will include hands-on work utilizing common software applications used in business. Students will create a design portfolio of business-related documents such as business cards, print advertisements, newsletter templates, instructions, and forms.

 


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