Marketing Communications for Social Change (with Foundation Year option) (Hons) Bournemouth University

Overview

Through the Marketing Communications for Social Change (with Foundation Year option) (Hons) BA course from Bournemouth University you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry.

• Explore how marketing communications can drive social change promoting wellbeing, ethical practices and sustainability for the benefit of businesses, people and the planet

• Develop a critical understanding of integrated marketing communications that will enable you to adapt to a variety of roles in the industry  

• Work on live briefs set by industry for unit assessments and learn from professionals who deliver guest lectures and workshops every year  

• Co-create academic and professional research with staff including consultancy projects for industry clients  

• Tailor your dgree to suit you with the opportunity to move across our Marketing Communications courses at the end of your first year and select from a range of option units in your final year

• Complete a work placement anywhere in the world, giving you the chance to put theory into practice, make great career contacts and bolster your blossoming CV

Career opportunities:

This course will give you all the skills you need to get ahead in this thriving sector and the work placement will allow you to make contacts and build relationships with those already working in the industry.

Among the roles you could take on are:

• Marketing Manager

• Media Executive

• Media Planner

• Marketing Executive

• Press Assistant

• Events Manager