Graduate Certificate in
Marketing

This non-credit orientation is a foundation-building experience that introduces and refreshes the skills necessary for success in your Graduate Degree Program. You'll learn how to navigate ProQuest, Ashworth College's online library, and review the distinguishing characteristics of academic journals and other publications. Internet research skills are polished enabling you to identify credible and unbiased Web sites for your research. Emphasis is placed on submission requirements, project structures, and writing formats used throughout your coursework, and APA writing style. The final portion of this course provides you the opportunity to research and explore the various career fields in the world of Marketing.

Discover how marketing serves as a foundation for making critical decisions related to identifying customers, delineating which needs to satisfy, developing products and services that satisfy these needs, setting prices, using appropriate communications, staging sales promotions, managing the sales force, selecting channels of distribution, maintaining funding and coordinating partnerships. Concepts presented are directed to the marketplace realities of the 21st century, including global marketing.
Credit Hours: 3

This course explores the fascinating realm of consumer behavior. This discipline borrows from several social sciences including psychology, sociology, and anthropology to explain behavior in the marketplace. Students will explore how perceptions, learning, memory, personality, and attitudes influence consumption behavior, how consumption changes during one’s life cycle, and how powerful cultural and subcultural influences impact consumers.
Credit Hours: 3

This course introduces the student to advertising and the other supplemental aspects of integrated marketing communications, including the development of integrated marketing communications plans and their component parts. To effectively plan, implement, and evaluate advertising and promotional programs requires an understanding of the overall marketing process, consumer behavior, communications theory, and the media of advertising and promotion. Attention will be given to the environment in which advertising and promotion operate and to how managers make promotional decisions. In addition, regulatory, social, and economic factors that influence, and are in turn influenced by, an organization’s advertising and promotional program will be considered.
Credit Hours: 3

Brand Management provides the student with opportunities to research the topic of branding and apply the strategic concepts to increase their skills in managing brands. Brand management involves planning and strategies to make more developed marketing decisions. This course not only provides the student with an opportunity to learn brand marketing strategies, but he or she will also learn to apply this information to case examples in order to practice application of the course information.
Credit Hours: 3

Services are intangible. They cannot be seen, felt, or heard. In this course, students explore the special challenges associated with the marketing of services as opposed to marketing tangible goods. Emphasis is given to the implementation of service strategies to gain a competitive advantage, increase customer satisfaction, strengthen customer relations, and enhance service quality.
Credit Hours: 3

Marketing Ethics is a course designed to familiarize students with the role ethical theory plays in decision making. This course explores the need for ethical decision making in all stages of developing and implementing a marketing strategy, including market research, market segmentation, product management, advertising, and personal sales. Students will also leave this course with a foundation in ethics that will provide a personal framework from which to make ethical decisions in their future business and personal lives.
Credit Hours: 3

This course provides a comprehensive review of the tools and approaches commonly used in marketing research. It introduces the student to the value of research for solving marketing problems, presents the research process and use of secondary data, and then expands into the three primary types of research designs: qualitative, descriptive, and experimental. The ability to analyze data and interpret statistical output will be emphasized.
Credit Hours: 3

The focus of this course is entirely on international marketing, rather than on the traditionally broader topic of international business. It begins with a discussion of what global marketers do, how marketing theory is applied to the global marketplace, and the impact of cultural differences on global marketing. The greater part of the course concentrates on the three skill sets a global marketing manager must have to be successful in the global marketplace: foreign entry skills, local marketing skills, and global (marketing) management skills.
Credit Hours: 3