Marketing
Take a minute to look around you. How many messages and images do you see right now that are trying to get your attention? Products in games, brand names on clothes, e-mail newsletters, packaging, coupons, advertising, search engines and word of mouth -- it's all marketing.
Become part of our hands-on Marketing program and you'll start to learn in your first semester about the fundamentals of marketing and how they impact business and consumers. Innovative, project-based work is built into every class, expanding on text material so you learn by both reading and experiencing.
In your first two years as a marketing major, you'll experience all facets of marketing, including advertising, customer relationship management, sales, consumer behavior and research, and international and interactive marketing, all designed to help you choose a career track for your junior and senior years that interests you -- either Marketing Management or Advertising.Marketing
Management: Interested in working in a corporation or nonprofit organization's marketing department where you'll be responsible for projects and strategic marketing planning? Or how about working in a marketing agency where you'll help clients devise their marketing strategies? Then Marketing Management is for you!
Advertising: Interested in the creative side? Want to focus on getting the word out, work in an ad agency or learn the skills to enter the advertising world? The Advertising track will get you there!
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Program Highlights
- Work with experts in the field right from the start. All courses are taught by a mix of incredibly talented, wide-ranging individuals with experience that will benefit you. Learn the fundamentals from faculty well-versed in how it all comes together, get involved in hands-on projects with faculty who work in the field right now and build a network that will stay with you for a long time -- even after college!
- Take a strong marketing core built on the fundamentals in your first two years and then, in your junior and senior years, get career-specific, taking courses that are designed to get you a job in your interest area. Marketing Management courses are strategic, are business- and project-driven and can also keep you on a Marketing Masters or MBA track. Advertising courses are hands-on, are creative and provide you with an opportunity to build a creative portfolio that will get you noticed.
- Get involved in an internship during your second year and then compete in your senior year for a high-level senior internship within your specific career track. Two internship opportunities reinforce your learning and make it all real!
- Be a part of an innovative program that is like no other! Explore the marketing environment with guest speakers, other students in the degree, and a wide range of instructors from different backgrounds. Enjoy intense discussion and debate. Take a course in nonprofit and social marketing that will get you involved in cause-related marketing within the community -- doing and learning.
- Entrepreneurship is everywhere, with new businesses emerging every day. You'll take courses that will have you working with businesses just like these, solving Internet marketing problems or exploring new international market opportunities. You learn in the classroom while working on projects that may have an impact on current businesses right now.
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Curriculum
Choose the Marketing Track or the Advertising Track
Marketing Track:
First Year
First Semester:
- COR 110 - Concepts of the Self
- COR 115 - Rhetoric I
- MKT 110 - Marketing
- MKT 111 - Exploring Marketing
- MGT 100 - Building a Business in a Global Environment
- MTH 120 - College Algebra
Second Semester:
- COR 120 - Concepts of Community
- COR 125 - Rhetoric II
- MKT 130 - Advertising
- MCM 120 - Mass Media & Society
- EBC 110 - Internet, Information & Business
Second Year
First Semester:
- COR 210 - Scientific Revolutions
- COR 220 - Aesthetic Expressions
- MKT 250 - Internet-Based Marketing
- LAW 140 - Business Law
- MKT 200 - Customer Rel. Management & Sales
Second Semester:
- COR 230 - The Secular & the Sacred
- COR 240 - Capitalism & Democracy
- ACC 130 - Financial Accounting
- MKT 210 - Consumer Behavior & Research
- MKT 290 - Marketing Internship
Third Year
First Semester:
- COR 310 - Globalization & Technology
- COR 320 - Globalization & Faith
- MKT 330 - Brand & Account
- MTH 200 - Statistics
- ACC 140 - Managerial Accounting
Second Semester:
- COR 330 - CORE 9
- COR 340 - CORE 10
- Open Elective
- Open Elective
- MKT/INT elective
Fourth Year
First Semester:
- MKT 490 - Advanced Internship
or Marketing elective + 1 credit - MGT 260 - Project Management & Team Leadership
- ECN - Economics Elective
- EBC 411 - Internet Business Tactics
- Natural Science with Lab
Second Semester:
- COR 410 - CORE 11
- MKT 420 - Marketing Management
- MCM 360 - Legal Issues in Communication
- EBC 411 Three from series
or MCM/GDD/MKT elective
Advertising Track:
First Year
First Semester:
- COR 110 - Concepts of the Self
- COR 115 - Rhetoric I
- MKT 110 - Marketing
- MKT 111 - Exploring Marketing
- MGT 100 - Building a Business in a Global Environment
- MTH 120 - College Algebra
Second Semester:
- COR 120 - Concepts of Community
- COR 125 - Rhetoric II
- MKT 130 - Advertising
- MCM 120 - Mass Media & Society
- EBC 110 - Internet, Information & Business
Second Year
First Semester:
- COR 210 - Scientific Revolutions
- COR 220 - Aesthetic Expressions
- MKT 250 - Internet-Based Marketing
- LAW 140 - Business Law
- MKT 200 - Customer Rel. Management & Sales
Second Semester:
- COR 230 - The Secular & the Sacred
- COR 240 - Capitalism & Democracy
- ACC 110 - Budgeting & Finance
- MKT 210 - Consumer Behavior & Research
- MKT 290 - Marketing Internship
Third Year
First Semester:
- COR 310 - Globalization & Technology
- COR 320 - Globalization & Faith
- MKT 330 - Brand & Account
- GDD 111 - Visual & Digital Fundamentals
- MCM 305 - Creativity & Conceptual Development
Second Semester:
- COR 330 - CORE 9
- COR 340 - CORE 10
- Open Elective
- Open Elective
- MKT/INT/GDD elective
Fourth Year
First Semester:
- MKT 490 - Advanced Internship
or Marketing elective + 1 credit - MGT 260 - Project Management & Team Leadership
- MKT 410 - Advanced Advertising
- EBC 411 - Internet Business Tactics
- Natural Science with Lab
Second Semester:
- COR 410 - CORE 11
- MKT 420 - Marketing Management
- MCM 360 - Legal Issues in Communication
- EBC 411 Three from series
or MCM/GDD/MKT/MGT elective
BS Degree in Marketing
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Career Opportunities
The career opportunities in marketing are seemingly endless. From small businesses to international corporations, every kind of company, organization and government agency relies on marketing expertise.
According to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, "College graduates with related experience, a high level of creativity, and strong communication skills should have the best job opportunities. Those who have new media and interactive marketing skills will be particularly sought after." And jobs within the marketing sector, including advertising, marketing, promotions and sales, are expected to increase faster than the average for all occupations through 2010.
Some Career Opportunities Include:
Advertising Track
- Client associate
- Account coordinator
- Advertising account representative
- Advertising sales
- Advertising coordinator
Marketing Management Track
- Marketing specialist
- Marketing writer/coordinator
- Marketing promotions
- Entry-level sales
- Marketing communications coordinator
- Media sales
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Student Resources
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (career outlook in Advertising, Marketing, Promotions, Public Relations and Sales Managers)
American Marketing Association (AMA)
Business Marketing Association (BMA)
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
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