Course Overview
Through seminars, online, class, individual and group discussions, students will examine cooperative marketing topics ranging from interacting with members rather than customers, strategic analysis, upstream/downstream cooperative marketing, fund raising and ethics, to community preventive marketing, the social marketing mix, branding and co-creation. Exposure to cooperative marketing, community engagement frameworks and best practices provides students with the structure to understand and propose community capacity-building endeavours focused upon community growth and well-being. Note: This course is offered in the Fall term.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Articulate the key knowledge, skills and abilities associated with community economic development through the application of the cooperative principles.
- Develop tools, resources, and support systems for community development.
- Define the function and applications of values based economic development, as well as direct links to sustainable and balanced growth.
- Acquire and apply social marketing skills to resolve community, social and environmental issues.
- Analyze marketing problems and suggest relevant problem solving strategies and solutions using cooperative based business models.
- Assess the role of branding, social advertising and other communications in achieving behavioural change.
Effective as of Winter 2017
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