This course provides you with an overview of public relations. It covers the roles and responsibilities of public relations professionals and introduces you to the tools and tasks of practitioners. Finally, it provides you with insight into industry challenges and trends.

This course focuses on stimulating consumer sales action. Students learn practical, well established sales promotional techniques and how they can be mixed and matched to fit a specific situation. The importance of integrating sales promotion and direct marketing to optimize return on investment will be examined.

This integrated marketing communications course explores the relationships amongst all of the marketing mix elements, particularly promotion from an integrated perspective. Emphasis is placed on formal integrated marketing communications planning.

Media Management focuses on the development of the media plan and includes a study of media as an element of the marketing communication process, the development of advertising budgets, media selection methods, media buying processes and evaluation/control procedures. Students are introduced to a computerized advertising media analysis and decision-making tool.

This advertising design course covers the planning and execution of black and white advertising and the principles of visual design as applied to layout and typography. It also covers the mechanics of print production and accompanying technical terms. The course will provide students with the knowledge to design the elements of what makes an ad successful. Students can apply this information in their careers by enabling them to identify and communicate requirements for their ads.

This course covers a general overview of advertising: its history and role in society, the mechanics of the industry, advertising legislation and issues, advertising-marketing relationships and research.