MKTG-4600 : Marketing and Social Issues

This course explores the variety of ways that marketing is involved with social issues. Student and faculty examine the roles of marketing in creating or exacerbating social problems as well as its role in relieving them. Topics may vary but typically include materialism, energy and the environment, consumer privacy, sustainable business. Controversial products (tobacco, alcohol, guns, etc), and specific issues related to product, price promotion, and distribution. Classroom activities consist of discussion, case analyses, and guest speaker presentations. The course includes a service learning project.