Postgraduate Course: Marketing Sustainability (CMSE11155)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of this course is to give students a detailed understanding of how to market sustainability and associated goods, services and ideas.
The objectives of the course are:
1.To examine sustainability from the perspective of the consumer and the organisation marketing sustainability
2.To explore and understand key consumer behaviour issues affecting sustainability
3.To examine a range of barriers that exist to consuming sustainably
4.To explore a range of strategic and tactical options available for organisations marketing sustainability and associated goods, services and ideas.
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| Course description |
Study Programme
1.Introduction to Marketing Sustainability
Overview of Course
National resource footprints
Key principles of sustainable consumption
2.The (Sustainable) Consumer
Overview of the sustainable consumer
Does the sustainable consumer exist?
What different types of sustainable consumer are their?
3.The green gap: Why don't we walk the walk?
The Attitude-behaviour gap in sustainability
The Theory of Planned Behaviour
4.Over-consumption: A cultural phenomenon?
Are we programmed to over-consume?
Consumption and identity
Consumer Culture
5.Over-consumption: An Evolutionary Phenomenon 1?
Are we pre-programmed to over-consume?
Introduction to evolutionary psychology and consumer behaviour
6.Over-consumption: An Evolutionary Phenomenon 2?
Intersexual and Intrasexual rivalry
Red Ferraris, Sugar Daddies and Cougars
7.Sustainable Marketing case studies 1: Entrepreneurial Marketing Strategies
Case studies on how green start up companies have marketed sustainability
8.Sustainable Marketing case studies 2: Turning the supertanker
Case studies on how multinational companies have marketed sustainability
9.Sustainable Marketing case studies 3: Not for profits and Governments
Case studies on how governments and not-for profit organisations have marketed sustainability
10.Overview and revisions session
Overview of Course
Revision of topics
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Lecture Hours 20,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
125 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Individual Essay 30%
Tutorial Participation Portfolio 10%
Final exam 60% |
| Feedback |
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- 1. Knowledge and understanding:
After completing this course, students will have an understanding of:
o The unsustainable nature of current world consumption.
o The key cultural explanations for over-consumption.
o The evolutionary perspective on consumption and status.
o The "green gap" and the use of Theory of Planned behaviour as a frame work that can be used to begin understanding this "attitude-behaviour" inconsistency.
o Understanding of different types of sustainable consumer and the barriers to action that exist.
o How a range of strategic options exist for organisation wanting to market sustainability including, social marketing techniques, launching new sustainable brands, use of pioneer brands, repositioning whole brand portfolios and influencing public policy.
o The ethical and environmental issues linked to marketing activities.
2. Intellectual skills:
o The ability to critically evaluate sustainable marketing concepts, frameworks and tools;
o The ability to apply key analytical frameworks and tools to the analysis of sustainable marketing problems, situations or cases;
o The ability to identify and explain problems in pursuing certain courses of action towards improved sustainability.
3. Professional/subject specific/practical skills
Students will develop the following skills:
o The ability to identify and evaluate the ethical and environmental implications of alternative courses of marketing action;
o The ability to influence organisational marketing efforts toward sustainability.
o The ability to manage products and brands sustainably including utilising information on a firm's external and internal marketing environment to identify and prioritise appropriate marketing objectives, strategies and mixes;
o The ability to locate appropriate academic and practitioner resources on marketing topics;
4. Transferable skills
By the end of the course students will be expected to:
o Be able to competently communicate and exchange ideas in both large and small group settings;
o Be able to employ analytical and problem solving skills;
o Be able to plan, organise and prioritise work effectively.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | MSus |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Iain Black
Tel: (0131 6)51 5322
Email: Iain.Black@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kate Ainsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 3854
Email: Kate.Ainsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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