Course ID: | MARK 4550. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Multicultural Marketing |
Course Description: | Focuses on applying marketing principles to multicultural
consumer segments in the United States. It is designed to help
students develop an understanding of various multicultural
consumers in the U.S. and learn how to effectively reach them
through various marketing tools. |
Oasis Title: | Multicultural Marketing |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in MARK 4550S |
Prerequisite: | MARK 3000 or MARK 3000E or MARK 3000H or MARK 3001 or MARK 3001H or MARK 3001E |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | • Review and understand the scope and importance of
multicultural marketing.
• Understand and apply concepts and strategies that
companies use in targeting different racial and ethnic
consumer groups.
• Understand the market potential, buying patterns, and
other characteristics of selected racial and ethnic
groups.
• Understand what is race, what is racial/ethnic
identity, what it means to be “ethnic” or
a “minority,” etc.
• Understand the purpose of categorizing people into
different racial and ethnic groups.
• Understand the difference between viewing America as
a “melting pot” versus a “salad bowl.”
• Learn what marketers can do to enhance the valuing of
diversity in the marketplace and being more culturally
sensitive to customers from diverse backgrounds. |
Topical Outline: | • The multicultural consumer and the marketing mix
• The influence of culture on marketing and advertising
to multicultural consumers
• Reaching Hispanic consumers
• Reaching African American consumers
• Reaching Asian American consumers
• Advertising agencies and multicultural consumers
• Ethics and social responsibility in selling to
multicultural consumers |
Honor Code Reference: | All academic work must meet the standards contained in “A
Culture of Honesty” and the Student Honor Code. All students
are responsible to inform themselves about those standards
before performing any academic work. Please review the policy
at http://www.uga.edu.edu/ovpi/honesty/acadhon.html. Lack of
knowledge of the academic policy is not a reasonable
explanation for a violation.
Specifically for this class, all exams, quizzes and homework
assignments are to be individual work. Each of the following
activities is considered to be a violation of test taking and
exercise taking procedures in this course. I will
automatically institute academic dishonesty procedures if any
of these activities occur.
• Reading another student’s exam booklet or scantron
during an exam
• Allowing another student to read your exam booklet or
scantron during an exam
• Sharing information about exam questions on an exam
which you have taken with anyone, prior to the time
graded exams are returned
• Recording, in any format, questions from any exam
during the exam period
• Having cell phones or other electronics visible during
an exam period
• Having an open backpack or notes, or review sheets, or
textbook content visible during an exam period
• Using any materials or any source other than your own
knowledge during an exam
• Collaborating (discussing approaches, possible answers)
on homework assignments
• Copying someone else’s homework assignment
• Asking another student to sign your name on the
attendance log when you are not present (you must earn
attendance/participation grade)
• Including the name of a team member who did not
participate in a submitted team activity
• Claiming an idea that is not your original work (all
references and supplemental materials must be cited on
all assignments)
• Turning in falsified documentation of any nature |