Enhance your digital marketing knowledge and skills to deliver high-quality digital campaigns.
This short course introduces students to Digital Marketing.
It investigates both hardware and software tools, e-communications mix, ethics and legalities in digital marketing and metrics. It will give students an insight into how digital marketing is used in a 'real' world context and gives them an opportunity to develop a personal brand through social media.
Registration Guidelines: Ulster Uni Undergraduate CPPD – MKT358 Digital Marketing
To apply please follow the application instructions below.
All applications are completed online.
1. To apply for this short course please click this link www.ulster.ac.uk/applyonline to take you to the online application system.
2. If you have never used this system before, please click on First time user account creation and create an account.
a. Please keep a record of the Login ID and PIN you create for future use and note that the Login ID is case sensitive and must be entered exactly as you first created it in order for the system to recognise and authenticate it.
3. Log into the system and click on New to create a new application. Then click the Continue button at the bottom of the form.
4. Click on Application Type (dropdown box at the bottom of the screen) and choose 'Professional Develop Undergrad', then click the Continue button at the bottom of the Application form.
5. When completing the 'Admission Term', ensure that you choose the correct Academic Year. The options available are current academic year or the next academic year. In this case select the current academic year: Academic Year 2024-2025
6. Complete your details then click the Fill Out Application button.
7. When completing the 'Programme Selection'section of the application, in the first question 'Programme Choice - Please scroll down to select title.:',please ensure you choose ’CPPD Modules Part-time Belfast', from the dropdown menu.
8. Please give the full title of the short course(s) you wish to study (copy and paste the short course title exactly as below):
MKT358 Digital Marketing
9. For the question, 'Are you applying for a funded place on one of the DfE Skills programmes?', please select the 'No' option.
10. Please continue and complete all required sections within the application.
11. Ensure your application is complete and then submit. This includes confirmation of the application and your consent to our Data Protection Statement. You must complete this step for your application to be sent to the Admissions team for consideration.
12. You will receive a confirmation email that the application has been submitted, please ensure you check your Junk Mail as well as the Inbox of the e-mail address listed on your application.
13. You may need to provide additional documentation.
14. Once your place is accepted, you will receive an enrolment email. You must complete the online enrolment to confirm your place and start your course.
Please keep an eye on your email Inbox and Spam/Junk folders for these important emails, with details on how to complete registration and online enrolment, to ensure you successfully enrol and receive your student credentials.
If you have any problems completing the online application or are unsure of any of the required details, please contact the Centre for Flexible and Continuing Education – FlexEd@ulster.ac.uk
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In this section
This short course emphasises the emergence of the Digital Era and the significant role which digital marketing plays in organisational strategy. The course aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge to successfully implement a digital campaign and to develop an understanding of the role of digital media in contemporary marketing communication.
The digital age has transformed the communication process for businesses, requiring different planning strategies. This units helps students understand them and implement them in a 'real world' context.
This course aims to develop a broad understanding of the importance of digital marketing in the context of the modern organisation. It will give students the ability to create a digital marketing communication campaign in line with organisational objectives and will develop an appreciation of the key applications associated with digital marketing in terms of hardware and software.
Students will develop skills in analysis and application through the review of current case examples and marketing practice and there will be an emphasis on independent learning through individual and group activity.
Written Assignment (Coursework) [50%]
Typically this will consist of developing a profile on Social Networks such as X and Linkedin and producing a video and blog accompanied by a written rationale.
Written Assignment (Coursework) [50%]
Typically students will produce and present an individual Digital Marketing Campaign for a given 'real' world scenario.
This course requires on-campus attendance, at our Belfast campus, on two individual dates, during Semester 2, in 2025.
The course runs on the dates below -
* Please note, dates and timetabling may be subject to change.
You do not have to hold a degree to join this course – you’re welcome to apply if you have relevant professional experience.
Typically for undergraduate courses (level 4, 5 and 6), applicants should have GCSE English and Maths at C or equivalent. If you do not have these qualifications, other qualifications and work experience will be considered.
Each application for this short course will be judged on its merits and candidates are encouraged to complete the application form detailing their work experience and qualifications.
Applicants whose first language is not English must meet the minimum English entrance requirements of the University and will need to provide recent evidence of this (certified within the last two years).
Most of our courses require a minimum English level of IELTS 6.0 or equivalent, with no band score under 5.5. Trinity ISE: Pass at level III also meets this requirement.
Additional information on English language requirements for admission at Ulster University, is available at - www.ulster.ac.uk/global/apply/english-language-requirements
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Ulster continues to develop and support sustainability initiatives with our staff, students, and external partners across various aspects of teaching, research, professional services operations, and governance.
At Ulster every person, course, research project, and professional service area on every campus either does or can contribute in some way towards the global sustainability and climate change agenda.
We are guided by both our University Strategy People, Place and Partnerships: Delivering Sustainable Futures for All and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our work in this area is already being recognised globally. Most recently by the 2024 Times Higher Education Impact rating where we were recognised as Joint 5th Globally for Outreach Activities and Joint Top 20 Globally for Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnership for the Goals.
Visit our Sustainability at Ulster destination to learn more about how the University strategy and the activities of Ulster University support each of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Ulster University Business School (UUBS) aims to be a thought-leader for sustainable business futures.
Our mission is to embolden staff, students and all our stakeholders to become sustainable business futures leaders. We aim to support and showcase sustainability research and education across Ulster University Business School.
We do so by embedding the sustainable futures agenda into five remits: sustainability performance, research and knowledge exchange, learning and teaching, student experience and communications and engagement. We are a member of PRME – the Principles for Responsible Management Education concordat.
Contact: uubssustainability@ulster.ac.uk
We support and develop ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ within the Faculty’s Learning & teaching portfolio. We do so by providing bespoke staff training on ESD and curating an ESD Resources Hub.
All UUBS undergraduate and post-graduate course are mapped against the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), and students are actively involved in learning for sustainable development.
We seek to enhance the student experience by encouraging our students to become actively involved in sustainability initiatives, such as Carbon Literacy Training, the Big Spring Clean and collaborating with the Northern Ireland Resource Network.
We develop, support and disseminate sustainability-themed research within the Faculty and beyond. Our annual sustainability research networking event creates new research strands within the Faculty’s research portfolio.
We actively support out PhD community to embed sustainability in their research and provide training on methods and critical thinking on sustainability.
We partner with other institutions, such as Queen’s University Belfast and Atlantic Technological University to broaden our sustainability research and create interdisciplinary research links.
UUBS has a dedicated Sustainability Committee, tasked with developing dedicated internal and external communications and engagement activities promoting the sustainability work of the Faculty.
We host an annual Sustainability Business Breakfast, attend and speak at notable sustainability events, such as the SustainExchange Summit, the Belfast Re[Act] Festival and the NI Science Festival.
Our sustainability work is monitored on our bespoke UUBS SDG Dashboard on our dedicated UUBS sustainability webpages. Our sustainability performance team oversees the Faculty’s Academy Restaurant’s Green Academy programme and associated eco-certifications Green Key and Green Tourism Gold Award.
