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Overview

Program Description

This fully online, asynchronous program is designed to help students gain valuable skills related to websites and search engine marketing (SEM). Students will learn how to create a marketing strategy, along with how to manage a team to execute the marketing plan. This program will teach students to design and optimize a website to gain clients and increase visibility through SEM Google AdWords. The learner will gain these valuable skills, along with software skills in WordPress. Upon successful completion of this program, a student can transfer all these courses into the Marketing Management graduate certificate program (MKM1) (admission requirements apply).

Courses

Program Requirements

Level 1
Take all of the following Mandatory Courses:
Expected Availability
CreditsFall Winter Summer
Web Design for User ExperienceCOMP-60654NoNo
In today's evolving digital landscape, the modern marketer plays a crucial role in shaping and maintaining a brands' online presence through the brands' website. Websites are trusted by consumers as a single access point for brands. The modern website acts as a hub connecting various business operations and digital marketing efforts. Marketers often work cross-functionally with web designers and developers and need to ensure they are working together to prioritize the user experience. Designing websites with the end user in mind ensures website development efforts are useful, cost effective, and backed by data-informed business decisions. Websites designed and optimized for the user lay the critical foundation for most other forms of digital marketing, like search engine marketing, social media marketing, and search engine optimization. In this course students will be introduced to the key aspects of website design and development including strategy, scoping, planning, prototyping, developing, and testing. Students will learn various optimization strategies, apply basic construction techniques, and will learn to analyze and assess existing websites for usability and optimization. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of website design and development from a user-first perspective. As a final deliverable students will strategically plan, design, and develop a website.
Marketing ManagementMKTG-50063YesNo
Marketing is more than just advertising and sales. Marketing is a multi-disciplinary process that facilitates exchanges of value between organizations and their clients and customers. Effective management of the marketing function provides unique challenges for all organizations. This course provides an overview of the decisions managers face as they develop and execute marketing plans. Recent trends impacting strategies and tactics will be addressed. Students will work in groups to design a final marketing plan to address the objectives of an organization. They will also take on a simulation where they have an opportunity to run the marketing for their own company.
Google & Meta AdsMGMT-62104NoNo
Search is the largest digital advertising format in Canada. In 2022 it represented over 46% of total digital ad spend. Social media marketing follows close behind at 25%. For the modern digital marketer, understanding how to create, run and optimize effective paid search and paid social media campaigns is an essential skill. In this course, students will learn the fundamentals and strategies needed to create, run, and optimize effective paid search and paid social media campaigns. In the first half of the course students will focus on the most popular search engine marketing channel available to marketers today, Google Ads. In the course's latter half, students will delve into popular paid social media advertising channels mainly, the Meta Ads Manager. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in the tools and strategies needed to develop, manage, and optimize paid search and paid social media advertising campaigns that drive business results. As a final group project students work together to plan and create a creative Meta Ads campaign using various ad creation tools and techniques.

Program Residency
Students Must Complete a Minimum of 3 credits in this
program at Fanshawe College to meet the Program Residency
requirement and graduate from this program

Program Details

Program Code
MMN1
Delivery
Online
Topic Area
Business

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