Any experimental courses offered by MKT can be found at: registrar.iastate.edu/faculty-staff/courses/explistings/
Courses
Courses primarily for undergraduates:
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.SS.
Prereq: credit or current enrollment in ECON 101
The role of marketing in society. Markets, marketing institutions, and marketing functions with emphases on product, price, marketing communication, and marketing channel decisions.
Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: Sophomore status or above
The process of selling and how to sell effectively. Focus on selling in a business environment and applying to concepts to general interpersonal settings in personal life. Students will actively participate in class, collaborate with teammates to develop skills to sell ideas and become more effective in representing themselves and their company and its products and services. Develop skills necessary to build long-term, profitable relationships with clients.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.
Prereq: MKT 340
In-depth appreciation and understanding of the unique challenges inherent in creating, managing, and delivering quality services. Students will be introduced to and have the opportunity to work with concepts, tools, and strategies that address these challenges.
Cr. 3.
Prereq: MKT 340
The course will cover marketing, advertising and communications strategies in the new media landscape where traditional media (e.g., television, print) and the online social media (i.e., Web 2.0; e.g., online social networks, user-generated content, blogs, forums) co-exist. Students will be expected to have knowledge about the fundamentals of traditional advertising methods and strategies. With this background knowledge, the primary focus of this course will be on understanding social media, how to build social media marketing strategies, and how to track their effectiveness. This course will not look at more tactical aspects of advertising/communications such as creative, message management, and publicity. This will first and foremost be a marketing strategy course.
Cr. 3. F.S.SS.
Prereq: MKT 340
A survey course that explores key topics and competencies that will help formulate a digital marketing strategy and power a digital marketing campaign. Digital marketing is a broader toolkit that includes search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing, mobile marketing, email marketing, landing page optimization, social media marketing, and more.
(Cross-listed with MIS). Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: Sophomore and above
Consultative problem-solving approach to address complex problems in marketing and related fields. Topics include problem definition, issue tree dis-aggregation, hypotheses development and the Pyramid Principle. Development of skills such as formulating problems, structuring and prioritizing problems, synthesizing results and communicating intuition from quantitative analyses.
(Cross-listed with MIS). (3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Use of different tools to conduct various analyses to support marketing strategies. Topics include data visualization and exploration, forecasting, social media analytics and other marketing techniques. Development of skills such as structuring problems, and synthesizing results from quantitative analyses.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: Credit or enrollment in MKT 447
Principles, concepts, and problems involved in the development and implementation of promotional strategies. Coordination of a variety of promotional elements: advertising, sales promotion, direct marketing, public relations and publicity of web communications, and personal selling.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Functional aspects of sales force management; personal selling methods; procedures for recruiting, selecting, and training new salespeople; compensation and expense control systems; problems of sales force motivation and supervision; methods of territorial and quota assignment; sales department budgets; distributor-dealer relations; other selected topics.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Examines how customer data can be used to enhance decisions relating to acquisition, development and retention. Topics include customer lifetime value, customer as assets, customer loyalty programs and customization.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Study of how consumers select, purchase, use, and dispose of goods and services. Includes analyses of how markets and others influence these processes. Application of concepts and methods of the behavioral sciences to marketing management decision making.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Marketing from a global perspective and familiarity with the problems and perspectives that global companies face. Concepts and principles of marketing strategies, market assessment, identify marketing opportunities, entry decision, emerging markets, effects of political, legal, economic and cultural environments, and decisions relating to segmentation, positioning, branding, product, price, distribution and promotions in a global setting.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: MKT 340 and either MKT 342 or IE 450
Analysis of the theory and practice of personal selling with the context of relationship marketing and salesforce automation. Topics include: goal setting, prospecting, time/territory management, questioning, presentations, objections, commitment and customer service; simulations of selling situations.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Focuses on marketing channels, the downstream part of a value chain, companies that come together to bring products and services from their point of origin to the point of consumption. Topics include channel institutions, channel design, channel coordination and implementation. Highlights international and technological aspects of marketing channels so that students can successfully develop and manage marketing channels in a contemporary business environment.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 447
Examines the role of brands and branding in market environments characterized by intense competition and consumer power. Covers issues relating to why branding is important to firms, what brands represent to consumers, and what should be done to manage them effectively.
Cr. 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: MKT 340, senior classification; permission of instructor
(3-0) Cr. 3. SS.
Prereq: MKT 340
Provides experience to students in culture, social, economic, and political environment of marketing in a foreign country. Students complete a term project (e.g., a marketing plan) based on information collected in the foreign country. Students attend briefings by experts/officials of private and public organizations.
Cr. 3. Repeatable, maximum of 4 times. F.S.
Prereq: MKT 340
Practical and complex sales and marketing problems using knowledge and skills learned from previous classes. Hands-on experiences to enhance skills in critical thinking, quantitative analysis and communications through the combination of lectures, in-class exercises and various case competitions.
Courses primarily for graduate students, open to qualified undergraduates:
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: Enrollment in MBA program or departmental permission
An analytical approach to the study of marketing issues and challenges of business firms and nonprofit organizations. Emphasis on the influence of the global marketplace and the marketing environment on marketing decision making; the determination of the organization's products, prices, channels and communication strategies; an orientation that ensures sustainability of marketing operations; and the organization's system for planning and controlling its marketing effort.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: MKT 501 and Graduate Classification or Instructor Permission
Principles and concepts of new product development and introduction; decision areas include market definition and structure, idea generation, concept evaluation, test marketing, launch tracking, and global product planning; models and techniques of new product evaluation used by consumer product companies.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: MKT 501 and Graduate Classification or Instructor Permission
The behavior of consumers. Intensive review of literature from relevant disciplines. Applications of concepts and methods of the behavioral sciences to marketing management decision making.
Cr. 3.
Prereq: Business Analytics students only
Integrate various concepts to solve problems in marketing. Enhance skills such as formulating problems, structuring and prioritizing problems, synthesizing results and communicating intuition from complicated analyses. Topics include problem definition, issue tree dis-aggregation and the Pyramid Principle. Overview of various newly developed marketing theories and analytical tools.
(Cross-listed with MIS). Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: Graduate Classification or Instructor Permission
Integration of various concepts to solve problems using appropriate tools. Specifically, the course consist of the following three components: (a) help students develop consultative problem-solving skills; (b) introduce various newly developed consumer behavior theories; (c) provide an overview of quantitative models in the field of marketing analytics. Hands-on experiences to enhance skills such as formulating problems, structuring and prioritizing problems, synthesizing results and communicating intuition from complicated analyses.
Cr. 1-3. Repeatable.
Prereq: Permission of instructor
For students wishing to do individual research in a particular area of marketing.
Courses for graduate students:
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: MGMT 601
A rigorous foundation of the major conceptual and methodological paradigms in the consumer-behavior literature. Seeks to aid students in understanding the psychological, sociological, and anthropological roots of consumer behavior research. Read the latest research in the area reported in leading consumer behavior/psychology journals.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: MGMT 601
Review major contributions and recent developments in marketing strategy research and practice. Review commonly used modeling approaches and research methods to study strategic interaction between firms seeking to build competitive advantages. Provide an overview of empirical research regarding measurement, level and persistence of business success and implications of findings for theory and strategy development.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: MKT 601
Addresses key strategy and implementation issues behind customer management. Topics such as typology of CM strategies, antecedents and outcomes; environmental and managerial influences on strategy formation; technology and impact on CM strategy; and value of CM strategy. Examine theories and concepts behind important CM issues such as customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and customer profitability.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: MGMT 602
Inter-firm and network competition; relationship among suppliers, distributors, alliance partners, external employees, and internal employees. Theories including agency theory, network theory, relationship marketing, channels of distribution theories on cooperation versus competition, IOS theories.
Cr. 3. Repeatable, maximum of 3 times. Alt. F., offered odd-numbered years.
Survey of quantitative methods used in the field of marketing analytics. Topics include discrete choice models, unobserved heterogeneity, endogeneity, Hidden Markov models and other newly-developed techniques. Understand, develop and estimate quantitative models and understand main topics in marketing analytics.
(1-0) Cr. 1.
Prereq: enrollment in the PhD program
Preparation of a research manuscript to be submitted to a peer-reviewed academic journal. Students will work with a faculty mentor on a research project.
(1-0) Cr. 1.
Prereq: enrollment in the PhD program
Preparation of a second research manuscript to be submitted to a peer-reviewed academic journal. Although students work under the supervision of a faculty mentor, the students will take independent responsibility for the research project.
Cr. 12.
Prereq: Graduate classification, permission of dissertation supervisor
Research.