Course 2024-2025 a.y.

30332 - MARKETING RESEARCH SKILLS FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Department of Marketing

Course taught in English

Student consultation hours
Class timetable
Exam timetable
Go to class group/s: 44
BIG (3 credits - II sem. - OB  |  SECS-P/08)
Course Director:
JOACHIM VOSGERAU

Classes: 44 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 44: JOACHIM VOSGERAU


Mission & Content Summary

MISSION

Marketing research is the art of understanding how people make decisions. For good policy makers, such skills are just as crucial to design and evaluate new policies. This course explains qualitative and quantitative tools as commonly used in marketing and applies them in the political domain.

CONTENT SUMMARY

  • Identifying and analyzing marketing research problems in public policy.
  • Designing research projects.
  • Collecting and using different types of data.
  • Explaining and transferring results to practitioners in public policy.
  • Understanding benefits and conditions of various research strategies.
  • Discussing recent trends of marketing research for public policy.
  • Monitoring ethical constraints and dilemmas when executing marketing research.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...

At the end of the course student will be able to...

  • Understand marketing research in the context of public policy.
  • Design and conduct of marketing research projects for policy making.
  • Design and test interventions aimed at changing behavior (nudges).

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

At the end of the course student will be able to...

At the end of the course student will be able to...

  • Assess the quality of reported marketing research in the context of public policy.
  • Contribute actively to larger marketing research projects for policy making.
  • Develop autonomously research question(s) and derive the appropriate corresponding research design.

Teaching methods

  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

DETAILS

For those who attend the course, there will be two quizzes (multiple choice questions) about the course material covered so far. As attending student, the quizzes count towards your course grade. You need to pass both quizzes in order to take the exam for attending students.


Assessment methods

  Continuous assessment Partial exams General exam
  • Written individual exam (traditional/online)
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ATTENDING STUDENTS

To pass this course as attending student, you need to pass both quizzes and the exam for attending students.

 

Quizzes: Two quizzes consisting of multiple-choice questions covering the material of the lectures (slides) up to that session.

 

Final exam: The exam is an individual written test that covers course material covered in class and readings. The exam will make use of different formats of standardized questions, but clearly will go beyond testing your knowledge of definitions. The focus will be on the application of marketing research in an empirical context.


NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

Final exam (100%): The exam is an individual written test that covers the textbook. The exam will make use of different formats of standardized questions, but clearly will go beyond testing your knowledge of definitions. The focus will be on the application of marketing research in an empirical context.


Teaching materials


ATTENDING STUDENTS

Course slides and additional readings, all of these materials will be posted on blackboard.


NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

TEXTBOOK: N.K. MALHOTRA, Essentials of Marketing Research, Global Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall.

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