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Undergraduate program

Marketing

Undergrad major

Marketing includes designing new products, pricing, advertising and delivering products to customers. The field offers many subfields to explore such as sales, digital marketing, social media, market research, public relations, advertising, content marketing, and more. Marketing is a field that values creativity, strong analytical skills and people skills.

Graduate program

Digital Marketing

Graduate certificate

Areas of study

Digital Marketing Analytics

Graduate certificate

Digital Marketing Management

Graduate certificate

Featured courses

  • Principles of Marketing
    MKT 309 | 3 credits
    An introduction to the study of marketing in business and other organizations. Topics include: the marketing environment, marketing strategies and decision-making, marketing ethics and the international dimension of marketing strategy. Prerequisite: ECO 110; business minor or a major with a business concentration and junior standing, or admission to business. Offered Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.
  • International Marketing
    MKT 341 | 3 credits
    An analysis of worldwide marketing opportunities through a consideration of political, legal, economic, and cultural factors in the international context. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business or international business minor, or French/German/Spanish major with a business concentration. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Sustainability in Marketing
    MKT 351 | 3 credits
    The course addresses environmental, social and economic sustainability issues facing society and modern marketing professionals. Course discussion will include sustainable marketing strategies, consumer attitudes, and consumption. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business. Offered Spring.
  • Buyer Behavior
    MKT 362 | 3 credits
    This course examines basic concepts related to understanding buyer behavior. Topics include information processing, perception, and decision making. Also examines individual and socio-cultural variables which influence buyer behavior. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business or exercise science sport management. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Integrated Marketing Communications
    MKT 365 | 3 credits
    This course introduces the various forms and tools of marketing promotion. It includes an analysis of promotional activities in the development of an integrated marketing communications plan. It also develops student understanding of the role of promotion and the integrated nature of marketing planning. This course details the nature and process of developing integrated marketing campaigns as a part of the promotional mix. Students examine integrated marketing research, media planning, budgeting, creative activities, and ethical considerations. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business or exercise science sport management. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Market Research
    MKT 367 | 3 credits
    This course examines the research techniques commonly used to examine buyer behavior, including secondary data, surveys, and focus groups. Topics also include an analysis of research design methods, and the application of research to marketing decision making. Prerequisite: MKT 309; ECO 230; admission to business. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Professional Selling and Sales Management
    MKT 370 | 3 credits
    This course examines the role of personal selling in the marketing mix and addresses personal selling activities and techniques. Topics covered include communication and persuasion, prospecting, overcoming objections, presentations, questioning and closing methods, time and territory management, social, ethical, and legal issues. The course will focus primarily on business-to-business sales. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business or exercise sport science - sport management. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Business Marketing and Distribution
    MKT 386 | 3 credits
    Business-to-business marketing issues are explored, including distinctive characteristics of the business market, ways in which organizations make buying decisions, requirements for marketing strategy success, with an emphasis on distribution/supply chain in business marketing. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business. Offered Fall, Spring.
  • Sports and Recreation Marketing
    MKT 444 | 3 credits
    A comprehensive study of the planning, organization and implementation of marketing plans for all segments of the sports and recreation industry. Topics covered include: assessing market potential, defining the customer, location analysis, pricing, promotion, facilities and services management. Other issues addressed include the impact of new technology, cultural changes and other uncontrollable factors on sports marketing. Prerequisite: MKT 309; admission to business or exercise sport science - sport management. Offered Fall.
  • International Marketing Strategies
    MKT 445 | 3 credits
    A study of policy and strategy formulation in the context of international marketing. Emphasis is placed on both the theory and application of international marketing decision processes. Prerequisite: MKT 309; MKT 341 or instructor approval; admission to business or international business minor. Offered Occasionally.
  • Digital Marketing and Analytics
    MKT 465 | 3 credits
    This course offers a hands-on, application-based approach to the use of digital channels as marketing tools. The course explores how marketers use digital media, such as websites, blogs, social media platforms, and email for marketing communication purposes. Topics covered include search engine optimization, website design, content strategy, social media marketing, campaign management and evaluation, advertising, and digital marketing metrics and analysis. Prerequisite: MKT 309; MKT 365 or concurrent enrollment; admission to business. Offered Fall, Summer.
  • Marketing Management
    MKT 479 | 3 credits
    The analysis, planning, implementation and control of marketing programs designed to bring about desired exchanges with target markets within organizational objectives. Prerequisite: MKT 341, MKT 362, MKT 367; to be taken in the student's semester of graduation; admission to business. Offered Fall, Spring.