Core Module Information
Module title: Marketing Ethics and Sustainability

SCQF level: 10:
SCQF credit value: 20.00
ECTS credit value: 10

Module code: MKT10105
Module leader: Elaine Mercer-Jones
School The Business School
Subject area group: Marketing
Prerequisites

There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

Description of module content:

This module addresses one of the most pressing issues facing the business leaders and consumers of the future: sustainability. Drawing on key ethical theories - deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics, surveillance theory, postmodernism, feminism and semiotic analysis - this module encourages you to critically engage with a range of contemporary sustainability-related issues in marketing, presenting arguments and suggesting solutions to real-world problems. These issues and problems include: whether fast fashion in unethical; to what extent the beauty industry is sustainable; whether marketing encourages wasteful consumption; whether the postmodern consumer is a danger to the environment; whether marketing creates environmental problems rather than solves them; whether the 'green consumer' is a contradiction in terms.

Learning Outcomes for module:

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Analyse the different ethical issues relating to sustainability, and their relationship to marketing theory and practice.

LO2: Compare and contrast alternative ethical frameworks of analysis and apply them to questions and issues in marketing/sustainability.

LO3: Create practical ethical guidelines and principles for marketing practitioners to use when addressing matters of sustainability.

LO4: Develop scholarly written, analytical and debating skills.

Full Details of Teaching and Assessment
2024/5, Trimester 2, FACE-TO-FACE,
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Occurrence: 001
Primary mode of delivery: FACE-TO-FACE
Location of delivery: CRAIGLOCKHAR
Partner:
Member of staff responsible for delivering module: Elaine Mercer-Jones
Module Organiser:


Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH))
Mode of activityLearning & Teaching ActivityNESH (Study Hours)NESH Description
Face To Face Lecture 12 Contact Module Leader
Face To Face Tutorial 12 Contact Module Leader
Independent Learning Groupwork (Independent Study) 88 Contact Module Leader
Independent Learning Guided independent study 88 Contact Module Leader
Total Study Hours200
Expected Total Study Hours for Module200


Assessment
Type of Assessment Weighting % LOs covered Week due Length in Hours/Words Description
Oral Presentation 50 1,2,3,4 9 HOURS= 00.00 Contact Module Leader
Centrally Time Tabled Examination 50 1,2,3,4 14/15 HOURS= 02.00 Contact Module Leader
Component 1 subtotal: 50
Component 2 subtotal: 50
Module subtotal: 100

Indicative References and Reading List - URL:
Marketing Ethics and Sustainability MKT10105