SCHOOL

OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

ACADEMIC UNIT

AGRICULTURE

LEVEL OF STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE

COURSE CODE

AGE0704

SEMESTER

7

COURSE TITLE

Sales Promotion and Advertisement
INDEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES WEEKLY TEACHING
HOURS
CREDITS
Lectures 3
Lab / Op. Exercises 0
Exercises 0

TOTAL HOURS

3 5
COURSE TYPE Specialized Course of Agricultural Economics
PREREQUISITE COURSES None
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION and EXAMINATIONS Greek
IS THE COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS In English

COURSE WEBSITE (URL)

https:// eclass.uowm.gr/courses/AGE0701/

2. LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes

Description of Course:
The course attempt to provide the proper knowledge to the students in order to made them capable:
• to figure out the concepts of promotion and advertisement,
• to scrutinize the advertisements,
• to construct suitable ads for the targeting groups of consumers

A successive fulfillment of course must be made the students capable:
• to determine the advertisement aims
• to discern the promotive actives
• to choose promotive actives and ads for specific targeting groups of consumers
• to apprehend the advantages and disadvantages of media as potential options to circulate their ads
• to investigate the ads discriminating their various kinds
• to opt the proper communication networks according to the promotional scope and the available budget
• to imagine, illustrate and construct the marketing and the promotional mix for products, brands and firms
• to comprehend the role of advertising offices and firms
• to comprehend the differences between the domestic and the world-wide ads

General Competences

• Production of free, creative and inducive thinking
• Decision-making and background for marketing plans and promotion patterns
• Deductive and inductive reasoning for the ads’ construction and the promotive variables per kind of market, targeting group, brands, products and firms
• Background for postgraduate studies

3. SYLLABUS

The content of course includes:
• The presentation of marketing mix (product, price, promotion, place)
• The display of promotive techniques (short-run incentives, exhibitions, publicity, advertisement and personal purchases)
• The explication of advertisements’ scope
• The peruse of media as communicative tools between the brands and the consumers
• The comprehension of advertising and marketing budget ant the per consumer cost
• The segmentation of markets and the diversification of products due to the competition
• The role of competition for the structure of markets and the marketing
• The life cycle of products combining with the categories of consumers
• Marketing strategies according to M.Porter and H.Ansoff.
• More specialized matters as for the techniques of advertisements (per kind)
• The international ads
• The advertising offices and firms
• The establish of brands

4. TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS - EVALUATION

DELIVERY
Face-to-face or/and distance education (compliant to the circumstances)
USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Lectures using new technologies and upload of lectures to e-class.

TEACHING METHODS
Activity Semester Workload
Lectures 36
Paradigms 36
Individual study 72
Course total (25 hours of workload per credit uni 144
STUDENT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION • Individual case studies (50%)
• Final exams using multiple-choices test (50%)

5. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

-Suggested bibliography :
1. Belch, G., and Belch, M., 2022. Advertisement and Promotion: Integrated Marketing Communication (12th ed). Athens: A. Tziola Publications, ISBN: 978-960-418-941-0, Evdoxos: 102071490.
2. Zotos, G., Zotou, A., Kyrousi, A., Boutsouki, Ch., Palla, P.-T., and Chatzithomas, L., 2018. Advertisement: Configuration – Creative – Performance (6th ed.). Thessaloniki: University Studio Press. ISBN: 9789601223995, Evdoxos: 77110349
3. Arens, W., Arens, C., Scheafer, D., and Weigold, M., 2014. The Effective Advertisement. Athens: Rosili Publications. ISBN: 9789607745385, Evdoxos: 41957367
4. Frigas, G., 2010. Advertisement: A Modern Approach. Athens: Klidarithmos Publications. ISBN:
9789604613274. Evdoxos: 13640
5. Yeshin, T., 2006. Sales Promotion. Thomson Learning, ISBN: 978-184-48-0161-9.
6. Yeshin, T., 2005. Advertising. Thomson Learning, ISBN: 978-184-48-0160-2
7. OGuinn, T., Allen, C., Semenik, J.R., 2008. Advertising and Integrated Brand Promotion. Cengage Learning, ISBN: 978-032-45-6862-2
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