Marketing & MANAGEMENT
Marketing is the process of anticipating, managing, and satisfying consumers' demand for products, services, and ideas. Students will develop advertising and promotional techniques, business communication, and business development. Marketing professionals are responsible for developing, implementing and managing a company’s marketing efforts, both through traditional and digital formats, in order to stimulate customer interest and generate sales. Through the school store, students practice classroom skills every day.
Pathway Courses
Course 1— Marketing Principles
Marketing Principles addresses all the ways in which marketing satisfies consumer and business needs and wants for products and services. Students develop an understanding of the functions of marketing and how these functional areas affect all businesses. They learn basic marketing concepts and the role of marketing in our economy. Students also develop skills in applying economic concepts to marketing, distribution and logistics, marketing information management, finance in marketing, product/service planning, pricing mixes, promotional strategies, and personal selling.
Course 2– Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Entrepreneurship begins an in depth and detailed study of marketing while also focusing on management with specific emphasis on small business ownership. This course builds on the theories learned in Marketing Principles by providing practical application scenarios which test these theories. In addition, Marketing and Entrepreneurship focuses on the role of the supervisor and examines the qualities needed to be successful.
Course 3– Marketing Management
Students assume a managerial perspective by applying economic principles in marketing, analyzing operation’s needs, examining channel management and financial alternatives, managing marketing information, pricing products and services, developing product/service planning strategies, promoting products and services, purchasing, and professional sales. This course also includes global marketing where students analyze marketing strategies employed in the United States versus those employed in other countries.