With a BSc Marketing from Lancaster, you will be ready for a successful career in an industry always at the leading edge of society. Our highly-flexible course structure offers you the opportunity to choose your own pathway through your studies. You can choose to study modules in brand strategy, social media management, or digital marketing, and shape your future. Studying Marketing at Lancaster helps you develop an understanding of branding, distribution, ethical thinking, strategy, consumer behaviour, business models and the skills you need in a wide range of roles. You will tackle critical questions, such as: Why do people buy a product How are influencers changing the marketing landscape And, what are the ethics behind collecting consumer dataYou focus completely on marketing from the start, cover management aspects and marketing’s crucial role in a company’s success, and gain an understanding of consumers. We help craft the skilled professionals who can develop, design and implement marketing programmes, processes and activities essential for any successful business.In addition, in your first year, you will also study two further subjects from other departments. We call these your ‘minor subjects', which account for two modules of 40 credits each. You can choose from creative modules (e.g. design, film, creative writing), business modules (e.g. entrepreneurship, management, business intelligence), maths-orientated modules (e.g. accounting and finance, economics), social science modules (e.g. sociology, psychology) and even applied computing or languages, amongst many other options.