Marketing Classes Online
Curriculum Details
120 total credits required
The BA/BS in Marketing degree online requires 120 total credit hours, including 12 from core marketing classes.
General Education Business Courses (15-17 Credit Hours)
To earn a BA or BS in any business discpline, students must take 15-17 credit hours of General Education Business Courses. Please speak with an enrollment counselor for more details.
Core Business Requirements (36 Credit Hours)
Introduction to Business and Free Enterprise is an introductory course designed to prepare students to deal effectively with the challenges of contemporary life, including business activities such as management, marketing, teamwork, leadership, globalization, economic implications, as well as future expectations. This course intends to assist students in developing the skills needed to understand the principles and processes of everyday business life; and to introduce students to the academic opportunities and activities offered by the Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship and the Lindenwood University community. In addition, the seminar will provide information, instruction, exercises, techniques, group interaction, and guidance in the areas of personal growth. Lab fee may be required.
This course provides an introduction to business analytics, which involves the use of statistical, predictive and optimization models to transform data into insight for making better decisions. An important goal is to encourage a more disciplined thinking process in the way a manager approaches management decision situations and to apply mathematical modeling with spreadsheets to decision making. Topics covered will include data visualization, forecasting, linear optimization, transportation and transshipment problems and simulation modeling. Hands-on projects and cases will relate to problems arising in a variety of functional areas of business, including finance, accounting, economics, marketing, sport management and supply chain management. Lab fee may be required.
Choose one of the HRM courses below
Five Required Major Courses (15 Credit Hours)
This course provides an introduction to the multiple sources of data and information used in making strategic and tactical marketing decisions. The course is designed to introduce the student to the strengths and limitations of a variety of marketing techniques and to the thought processes involved in selecting appropriate marketing techniques. Particular emphasis will be given to problem definition, design of marketing research studies, data collection techniques, data analysis and interpretation. A comprehensive team case toward the end of the course will tie together the concepts presented and provide an opportunity for oral and written presentation. Lab fee may be required.
Elective Requirement (12 Credit Hours)
This course will study the managerial process and design for new product development. The course will examine the product manager’s role in team management as it relates to new opportunity identification; new concept generation; new concept evaluation; development of the product or idea; and the steps necessary for successful market or launch. Particular emphasis will be placed on the following areas: the marketing process of finding and solving consumer needs, concept testing, forecasting, and financial analysis, product protocol, design, product testing, strategic launch planning, and market testing. Lab fee may be required.
1-3 credits
This course introduces students to a shift in how organizations (for-profit and nonprofit) promote products, services, and ideas through relationship marketing and marketing communications. Students will examine more credible and cost effective ways to create relationships with target markets than traditional mass-market advertising. They will examine marketing strategies that use the fundamentals of classic public relations, word-of-mouth (WOM) marketing, event marketing, mobile marketing, social media networking, and other forms of creative marketing communications to foster interactions among organizations, products, consumers, and the media. Lab fee may be required.
The Internship Program is designed to expose the student to a variety of practical business environments. This exposure will permit the student to observe and experience firsthand how businesses function in today’s society.
1-3 credits
This course will examine and teach how to create a marketing plan for a nonprofit organization identifying the targets of the plan and addressing what is known as the four P’s of marketing: place, public, price and promotion. Lab fee may be required.
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