2020/21 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS3845 Marketing Strategy

20 creditsClass Size: 140

Module manager: Mr Robert Duke
Email: R.C.Duke@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2020/21

Pre-requisite qualifications

Pre-requisites:
LUBS2840 Marketing Research
OR
LUBS2850 Marketing

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

An advanced marketing module that presumes basic marketing knowledge in its students. You will use advanced knowledge and skills, combined with the more basic marketing skills acquired in pre-requisite modules, complimentary skills acquired in co-requisite modules, and other skills, in the strategic marketing simulation Markstrat. In Markstrat, teams of students compete against each other in two consumer durables markets.

Objectives

This module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to recognise and explain advanced concepts in marketing strategy that build upon those acquired in earlier marketing modules and apply this knowledge in a realistic simulation of marketing management.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to interpret and outline:
- major aspects of strategic marketing
- strategic marketing principles, as well as principles of strategic management, in a realistic simulation of a real world, competitive strategic marketing situation
- marketing information

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Exercise effective leadership skills
- Work effectively as part of a team
- Present coherently to a variety of audiences

Subject specific
- Formulate, implement and control marketing strategies

Syllabus

Indicative content
- strategic analysis and planning
- advanced and critical product life cycle for marketing
- strategic focus
- marketing led research and development strategies
- market entry strategies
- competitor-based marketing strategy and military analogy

Teams of students will compete against each other for several simulated years in two consumer durables markets, allowing them to learn from the kind of "real" management situations that are difficult to provide through any other learning experience.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	17	1.00	17.00
Seminar	9	2.00	18.00
Private study hours			165.00
Total Contact hours			35.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

This could include a variety of activities, such as reading, watching videos, question practice and exam preparation.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Your teaching methods could include a variety of delivery models, such as face-to-face teaching, live webinars, discussion boards and other interactive activities. There will be opportunities for formative feedback throughout the module.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	Report	30.00
Presentation	Non-assessed, part of the Group Project	0.00
Essay	Two Individual Essays, 1500 words each	70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by assessed essays.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 10/08/2020 08:41:48

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