COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name Code Semester T+A+L (hour/week) Type (C / O) Local Credit ECTS
New Trends in Advertising ADV 404 Spring 03+00+00 Elective 3 6
Academic Unit: Communication Faculty
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Prerequisites: None
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: - -
Course Objectives: The students are expected to:
• To understand the consumers and the clients, understand
• Foresee the communication scape of the future
• Developing an understanding of the creative use of advertising and its media
• Develop a familiarity with channel/medium marketing.
Course Contents: This course offers an overview of new trends in advertising, and the changes in the placement of consumers and media in the future landscape of advertising.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO):
  • 1- Ability to think, reflect on, and foresee the future of advertising based on the understanding of current advertising practices
  • 2- Ability to reflect on applications of creative use of media
  • 3- Ability to o present the idea and be able to defend it in meetings.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: The course consists of 3 basic modules. These are: 1. Changing Consumer Behaviors 2. Trends 3. Content Marketing Modules often start with an introduction that reveals the necessity of the concept that will be analyzed within the module. Students later are asked to present their observations and do small projects related to the concept to be able to interiorize the knowledge. The written and oral presentations of the projects are graded 20%. In class application reports (response papers) are graded . And Research reports are graded 0. The rest of the overall grade, 30%, then covered by the research presentations


WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS

WeekSubjectsRelated Preperation
1 Orientation Week (Introduction and course plan)
2 Changing world and appearance of the trends Research
3 Changing behaviors that impact marketing and advertising Research
4 Changing consumer behaviors in Turkey Research & an oral presentation about the module and delivering project reports
5 Media trends and new tools Selected readings
6 Design trends Selected readings
7 Technology trends Selected readings
8 Production trends Selected readings & an oral presentation about the module and delivering project reports
9 Changing customer loyalty and beginning of the content Selected readings
10 Content trends Selected readings & response paper
11 Creating a data driven content Selected readings
12 Content strategy of brands Selected readings & an oral presentation about the module and delivering project reports.
13 Presentation Week
14 Review Week


REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING

Books:
Pulizzi, Joe. Content INC. 1st ed. Mc Graw Hill Education, 2015
Odabaşı, Prof. Dr. Yavuz. Post Modern Pazarlamayı Anlamak, 1. Baskı, The Kitap, 2019

Articles:
Wunderman Thompson Intelligence (web sitesi) - Protecting Digital Identities
The New Social Media
Streaming Wars 2.0
Generation Alpha

Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve (web sitesi - Trendbank
Think With Google (web sitesi) – Insights to understand consumer needs
Content Marketing Institure – Content Management and Strategy


OTHER COURSE RESOURCES



ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Semester RequirementsNumberPercentage of Grade (%)
Attendance / Participation 12 -
Practice / Exercise 2 20
Project 3 30
Presentation / Jury 3 20
Project Reports 1 30
Total: 21 100


WORKLOAD

EventsCountDuration (Hours)Total Workload (hour)
Course Hours14342
Practice / Exercise2918
Project31030
Preparation for Presentation / Jury31030
Presentation of Project Reports13030
Total Workload (hour):150


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)

# PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12
LO1                        
LO2                        
LO3