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BU5991: DIGITAL MARKETING (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19


Course Overview

The course provides both a strategic orientation and tactical orientation:

Strategic:

§  How to align digital strategy with a wider business strategy

§  The value that (internal and external) research and analytics can bring to digital marketing decisions

Tactical:

§  Assess the quality of any website based on a range of important measures

§  Benchmark a website’s performance against online competitors

§  Investigate the potential of a business idea for a given market sector

§  Present digital marketing research and advice to a generalist audience

§  Understand the potential commercial value of social media

§  Interpret onsite analytics in support of business objectives

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Third Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
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What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Focussing on the B2C sector, the course begins with an overview of the online environment in terms of technologies, sectoral adoption rates, user-profiles etc. The course then proceeds with a focus on the vendor-consumer encounter in cyberspace. In doing so, the course considers topics including: usability; accessibility; motivation (flow); online trust, and information processing.


Contact Teaching Time

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Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

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Formative Assessment

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Course Learning Outcomes

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