The Marketing Major provides students with relevant marketing skills, a crucial component of any business which includes conducting research to learn about the needs of customers, developing new products or refining existing ones, setting prices, determining where products should be sold and promoting the product to the final users. The curriculum furnishes Marketing majors with a sound foundation in the basics of marketing, consumer behavior and marketing research before advancing to the higher level modules of different marketing strategy courses. Students learn how to analyze situations and implement strategies under different market environments through lectures, class discussions, case studies and projects.