Marketing with Foundation Year BA (Hons)
Sheffield Hallam University
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**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.****Course summary**- Gain in-depth marketing knowledge, exploring future-facing strategies and media.- Direct your learning with specialist routes in digital customer experience, global marketing and consumer psychology. - Experience real-world marketing with opportunities to manage campaigns for leading brands.- Join a hub of creatives and entrepreneurs in our award-winning enterprise centre.On our BA Marketing ...Read more


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Course summary

- Gain in-depth marketing knowledge, exploring future-facing strategies and media.- Direct your learning with specialist routes in digital customer experience, global marketing and consumer psychology. - Experience real-world marketing with opportunities to manage campaigns for leading brands.- Join a hub of creatives and entrepreneurs in our award-winning enterprise centre.On our BA Marketing course you’ll combine creativity, technical know-how and hands-on experience. Balancing theory and practice, you’ll not only gain a diverse set of transferable skills, you’ll also be encouraged to develop your interests and channel them into a specialist sector of your choice.If you’d like extra preparation before starting degree-level study, we recommend you join the foundation course – which has been designed to encourage exploration and experimentation.


How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.Based in our Sheffield Business School, you’ll join a global community where business leaders, researchers and 7,000 business students all come together to solve problems and make things better.You’ll be taught by award-winning teachers and industry experts, who bring their experience and research into the classroom. Your course is designed by industry specialists and leading institutes – helping you graduate with the skills employers are looking for. Through our relationships with leading local and global brands, you’ll have the opportunity to access placements, volunteering programmes, training schemes, internships and work experience. We use a wide variety of assessments that respect the diverse ways people learn. These include tests, essays, presentations, project plans and reflective writing.  


Key Themes

On this course you’ll learn the foundations of marketing theory – using market research, customer insights and competitor analysis to develop successful marketing strategies. You’ll also learn how to create brand identities and communicate brand values, using storytelling and creative to connect with your audience and grow loyal communities.You’ll discover what it means to champion social, cultural and environmental causes through ethical marketing practices – responding to contemporary market challenges with methodical and collaborative, problem-solving techniques.You’ll also explore how big data, social media, AI and Web 3.0 are changing the marketing landscape, learning what it will mean to be a marketer of the future.


Applied learning

We think the best way to learn something is to do it in the real world. That means putting learning into practice through placements, internships and consultancy projects through our global network of leading businesses.


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Albin
24 Jan 23

The timetable is not student friendly since I have to wait 6 hrs in University for another section.Its so annoying that I can't even concentrate on seminar after this..Read more

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ABINRAJ
24 Jan 23

The Timetable for our course is well Disturbing of Full Week class.That seems to be Very..Read more

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64 Grades / Points required

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M:15 Grades / Points required

This must include at least 32 points from one A level or equivalent BTEC National qualifications excluding general studies For example:CC at A LevelMPP in BTEC Extended Diploma.A combination of qualifications, which may include AS levels and EPQ.

Access to HE Diploma from a QAA recognised Access to HE course. Normally we require 15 credits at level 2 and 45 at level 3. At least 15 level 3 credits must be at merit grade or above from a QAA-recognised Access to HE course, or an equivalent Access to HE certificate.

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£9,250 per year

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£9,250 per year

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£16,655 per year

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£16,655 per year

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£16655 Per year

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Albin
24 Jan 23
The timetable is not student friendly since I have to wait 6 hrs in University for another section.Its so annoying that I can't even concentrate on seminar after this...
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ABINRAJ
24 Jan 23
The Timetable for our course is well Disturbing of Full Week class.That seems to be Very...
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