Examines how services organizations differ in many important respects from other business requiring a distinctive approach to marketing strategy, development, and execution. Considers private, public, and not for profit service organizations in Bangladeshi context.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: MKT 609
Course Name:
Service Marketing
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: MKT 610
Course Name:
Channels of Distribution
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course teaches the students how to make decision regarding physical distributions of products to consumers. It addresses channel structures including retail, wholesale and other agency relationships. Emphasis is placed on understanding how to design, implement, manage and evaluate a channel strategy.
Course Code: MKT 611
Course Name:
Advertising and Promotion Management
Prerequisite:
All major core courses
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Explores the important issues in making marketing communication decisions. Discusses advertising, reseller stimulation, personal selling, publicity and other tools as a part of an overall promotional mix. Emphasis is placed on understanding psychological principles in consumer behavior that facilitate the development of marketing communication programs.
Course Code: MSJ 101
Course Name:
Concepts of Communication
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course covers in detail all communication concepts and definitions including the scope and purpose of human communication; the processes of communication and basic models of communication and nonverbal communication. The contexts and levels of communication: intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organisational and mass communication; functions of communication: psychological and sociological perspectives; interpersonal relationship: self-disclosure and Johari window, transactional analysis are also covered. Group and organizational communication—nature and types; mass communication: factors affecting mass communication and mass media; perspectives of mass communication, uses and effects of media: media uses and gratifications, media and socialization; Internet as mass medium; gender and mass media.
Course Code: MSJ 101 (New)
Course Name:
Communication Concepts and Theories
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course provides an overview of important human communication concepts, models and theories at the levels of intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, organizational, mass and computer mediated. It likewise introduces the three main communication perspectives – positivist, interpretive and critical – and selected communication fields – public relations, popular communication, interpersonal communication, mass communication, intercultural communication, communication and technology, development communication, political communication and others.
Course Code: MSJ 102 (New)
Course Name:
Communication Research
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course enables students to appreciate, understand and apply various research designs, methods and techniques as applied in Communication. It places equal emphasis on qualitative and quantitative research methods. It likewise provides exercises on data generation techniques such as formulating questionnaires/interview guides, conducting in depth interviews and facilitating focused group discussions. Lastly, the course prepares learners how to analyze and interpret data.
Course Code: MSJ 103
Course Name:
English for the Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
English for the Media, unlike any other English writing, has a different kind of rhythm. Students will be able to learn that rhythm and express themselves effectively. Building journalistic vocabulary is one of the major components of the course. Students will then be taught how to write to express, and not to impress. Learning the art and technique of journalistic writing will help students get jobs in newspapers, magazines, public relations, advertising and publishing industries. Many NGOs also look for graduates with effective communication skills in written English. The course will help develop these skills.
Course Code: MSJ 103 (New)
Course Name:
Figures and Numbers for Communication Majors
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Communication majors will be taught to appreciate the language of figures and numbers, which add special value to any message or report. This course will cover the use of numbers in media, including journalism and public relations, and serve as a refresher on how to perform basic calculations to find fractions, ratios, averages and basic survey techniques. Students will also be taught to analyze simple government and corporate reports.
Course Code: MSJ 112
Course Name:
History of Bangladeshi Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course will also offer an overview of history of the media in Bangladesh from its inception. This will entail a study of the greater Bengali media based in Kolkata as well as post-Independence. The course will focus on the development of the newspaper industry in this country since 1947, the introduction of television, the changing nature of radio in Bangladesh and the national film industry. The course will conclude with an evaluation of the impact of the new media on the local media and the rise of citizen journalism.
Course Code: MSJ 11511
Course Name:
Communication Research
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of research with emphasis on practices in the field of communication. This course is designed to help students conceptualize their research topic. Students will learn how to write chapter one of their thesis which may include introduction, background, rationale, objectives, hypothesis, statement of the problem, scope and delimitation, importance/significance, and definition of the terms.