2023

Marketing and Communication

Name: Marketing and Communication
Code: GES12847L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Management

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

• To publicize a set of notions and practices of marketing and communication;
• To be able to analyze marketing strategies, which are a key step in any business project, especifically the analysis and development of brand strategies;
• Develop and evaluate communication strategies for products and brands through the discussion of case studies.
Skills:
• Ability to analyze marketing strategies
• Ability to develop communication strategies integrated with marketing strategies • Ability to identify marketing problems and solutions
• Capacity for critical and abstarct thinking
• Team working capacity

Contents

1.1 Marketing and its evolution
1.2. The role of marketing in organizations
2. Marketing strategy
2.1. Development of a marketing strategy 2.2. SWOT analysis
3. Brands
3.1. Concept, importance and brand value
3.2. Corporate identity structures
3.3. Mission, vision and values of the brand - the brand territory 3.4. Brand identity elements
4. Marketing Communications
4.1. Integrated marketing communications 4.2. Communication plan
4.3. Advertising
4.4. Public relations
4.5. New communication tools

Teaching Methods

- Lectures: aiming at the connection between theoretical and practical knowledge;
- In these lectures student involvement will be sought, through the promotion of dialog, discussion of ideas and opinions, in order to promote students ability for reasoning, abstraction and oral exposition;
- Analysis and discussion of case studies;
- E-learning through the Moodle platform;
- Promotion and supervision of individual and group research work.
Assessment:
In continuous evaluation regime - Group Essay (50%)
- Written in-class exam (50%)
In exam regime
- Written in-class exam (100%)

Teaching Staff