Marketing with Placement Year BA

**BA (Hons) Marketing with Placement Year**<br/><br/>**A marketing degree with professional accreditation and the chance to choose a specialist pathway in year two, so you can develop key skills for your future career.**<br/><br/>**Why choose this course?**<br/>This degree is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM). You’ll spend the first year covering all aspects of marketing to find out where your passions and talents lie. Then from year two, you can continue on a general Marketing pathway with plenty of optional modules, or transfer to our courses in Digital Marketing, Marketing and Management, Marketing and Data Insights, Marketing and Consumer Psychology or Marketing, PR and Advertising.<br/><br/>**How you will learn**<br/> Our teaching methods will be varied, interactive and engaging. You’ll take part in lectures and seminars, individual and group-based practical assignments, visits to trade fairs, exhibitions and companies, with the opportunity to go on a placement or internship. <br/><br/>**Opportunities and experiences**<br/>We’ll take you beyond the classroom, giving you opportunities to tackle real marketing projects for employers and undertake placements, internships, or even a semester of studying abroad. You’ll also hear from interesting guest speakers and we’ll draw on fascinating real world case studies to bring marketing concepts and principles to life.<br/><br/>**Boost your employability with a placement year**<br/>You’ll have the opportunity to take a placement year to put the skills you’ve learned into practice in a real-world environment. Well support you to find your placement and throughout your year in industry. Placements allow you to gain valuable experience to add to your CV, make industry contacts and help you to narrow down what kind of role you may be interested in after graduation.<br/><br/>**Careers and employability**<br/>Marketing is now such a broad industry with a wide range of specialist roles, so these pathways enable you to build more in-depth skills in the particular area that interests you. Whichever pathway you choose, you will still gain a solid grounding in all of the key marketing disciplines, so you wont be closing any doors.