Module BUSI4Z015: PRACTISING SOCIAL MARKETING (ONLINE)

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI4Z015: PRACTISING SOCIAL MARKETING (ONLINE)

Tied To

• N1KY07: Entrepreneurship (Part-time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2012-2013 for details)
• N1N107: Entrepreneurship (for students entering in April 2014 only) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 for details)
• N2K307: Management (Part-Time) (for students entering between Oct 2010 - Oct 2012) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N2K507: Management (for students entering between Oct 2013 - Oct 2014) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N5K107: Marketing (Part-Time) (for students entering between Oct 2010 - Oct 2012) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2017-2018 for details)
• N5K407: Marketing (for students entering in April 2013 only) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N5K507: Marketing (for students entering from April 2014) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N6K107: Human Resource Management (Part-time) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2012-2013 for details)
• N6K207: Human Resource Management (for students entering from October 2013) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To provide a comprehensive introduction to social marketing, its historical origins and its theoretical bases.
• To develop an interdisciplinary framework with which to identify, understand, develop and critically evaluate social marketing interventions.
• To equip the student with both a conceptual and a practical foundation in social marketing campaign development.

Content

• Social change, social problems, and the development of social marketing;
• Social marketing strategies — objectives, planning, and operational considerations;
• Defining the target audience and the growing role of social market segmentation;
• Developing and refining the “social marketing mix“;
• Principles of behavioural intervention — a marketer’s perspective;
• Predicting and shaping human behaviour — stimulus, reward and contingency approaches
• Designing and implementing a behaviour management programme;
• Fields of social marketing intervention — health, education, crime, not-for-profit ventures, environmental and social problems, etc;
• Issues in social marketing — ethics, funding, social responsibility, politics, abuses, and controversies;
• Evaluating social marketing practices.

Learning Outcomes

• To have a grounded understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of social marketing and its principal fields of application.
• To have a critical appreciation of the potential role of social marketing strategies in addressing social and health-related issues that have underlying behavioural bases.

• To have acquired the advanced technical skills needed to develop, implement and manage an ethical and responsible social marketing programme.

• Written communication; planning, organising and time management; problem solving and analysis; using initiative; computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The module is delivered via online learning, divided up into study weeks with specially produced resources within each week. Resources vary according to the learning outcomes but normally include: video content, directed reading, reflection through activities, opportunities for self-assessment and peer-to-peer learning within a tutor-facilitated discussion board. Tutors provide feedback on formative work and facilitate discussion board communication as well as being available for individual consultation as necessary (usually by email and Skype). 
• The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

A written assignment of 1,500 words, or its multimedia equivalent, which may involve some group work.