Social Media in Marketing

Structure Type: Course
Code: SUMMER01
Type: Free choise
Level: Bachelor
Credits: 2.0 points
Responsible Teacher: Haasio, Ari
Language of Instruction: English

Learning Outcomes

This course gives students the skills to use social media in organization’s marketing. It also helps the participants to understand how to build a strategy for the marketing campaign in social media. Course topics include the use of different tools in social media marketing, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, blogging etc in practice. Students will also create a social media marketing strategy during the course and learn how to use different applications effectively by creating tools for marketing campaign.

Student's Workload

Contact lessons 12 h, independent work 42 h

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

None

Contents

- use of different tools in social media marketing
- creating the social media marketing strategy
- use of different applications

Recommended or Required Reading

Course material is provided by the teacher.

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- contact lessons
- independent learning assignments

Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Assessment Methods

Assessment is based on student assignments.

Work Placement

No work placement is included.

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