Digital Marketing: Ethical Strategies for Success
Acquire the concepts, language, resources, and strategic insight you need to thrive as a marketer in the digital age.
Customize for OrganizationsAt a Glance
- Enrollment:
- Open Enrollment
- Length:
- 6 weeks
Find your fit in digital marketing.
The University of Chicago’s online Digital Marketing course will equip aspiring marketers with the concepts, language, resources, and strategic insight to thrive in digital marketing.
Designed For
This course is designed for learners new to digital marketing and the working world. However, any professional who wants to discuss strategy intelligently when working with a marketing team, act as an ethical marketing leader, and prepare for the future of digital marketing will gain valuable insights.
Learning Objectives to Become a Digital Marketer
Over six weeks, you will learn core conceptual frameworks, strategies, and tools in digital marketing.
After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Identify current and emerging digital marketing concepts, strategies, and tools.
- Apply practical knowledge in your workplace and be prepared to evaluate opportunities in the field of digital marketing.
- Capitalize on digital marketing to drive business results within your organization while maintaining an ethical, human-centered approach.
- Picture your role within a larger network and feel a sense of solidarity in your efforts to find your fit in digital marketing and drive results for your organization.
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Get in TouchDigital Marketing Curriculum
You will learn to:
- Navigate the opportunities and challenges that accompany interacting with diverse populations in the digital age.
- Make smart, strategic decisions around digital marketing initiatives.
- Design and execute effective and ethically-minded digital marketing strategies with clarity and courage.
- Be equipped to stay on top of whatever industry changes may come your way.
Online Format Features
- Self-paced interactive learning modules with a variety of engaging learning activities, assignments, and resources.
- Live sessions that bring you, your peers, and your instructor together to learn collaboratively about the current state of the field, engage with real-world problems, and explore authentic solutions.
- Continuous support from your instructional assistant, who will accompany you on your journey through the content, answer your questions, and provide feedback on your work.
Weekly Course Schedule
Explore how the history of digital marketing informs where the field is headed. Examine the importance of ethical decision-making in the future of digital marketing. Assess your goals as an aspiring digital marketer and the extent to which they align with opportunities in the field.
Describe customer-centric digital marketing strategy. Identify the characters in an organization’s story. Explore the ethical considerations and implications surrounding customer-centric messaging.
Explore the current landscape of digital marketing channels and platforms. Examine major types of marketing campaigns: SEO, SEM, and PPC, display ads vs. native advertising, content marketing, SMM, email marketing, mobile/text marketing, and affiliate marketing vs. influencer marketing. Create a POST plan. Investigate the alignment of digital channels with personal values and company mission and purpose.
Recognize the role of data and analytics in digital marketing. Demonstrate data analysis and storytelling skills. Predict how emerging trends in data collection and analysis will impact the field.
Deduce the relationship between internal communication and leadership and digital marketing effectiveness. Discover digital leadership preferences and styles. Plan to navigate the balance between the fast pace of digital marketing and the ethical considerations of effective digital leadership.
Synthesize personal learning insights from previous modules. Discover possible career paths in digital marketing. Develop a personal brand statement and accountability plan to position yourself as an emerging digital marketer.
Meet Your Instructor
Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.
This instructor teaches this course regularly. Please speak to your enrollment advisor if you wish to know who the current teacher is.
Miriam Brosseau, MA
Principal, Tiny Windows Consulting
Miriam Brosseau is the principal of Tiny Windows Consulting, a communications and strategy consultancy that helps mission-driven leaders make the world a kinder, braver, more curious place by asking bigger questions and telling smaller stories.
Brosseau has served in nonprofits, including running the...
Career Outlook
Digital marketing occupies a pivotal role in business; its imprint—solidified, its reach—expansive. The curation of an organization’s digital presence affords proximity to customers that was once considered unattainable and promotes a well-rounded grasp of one’s target audience. Digital marketing professionals equipped to navigate the shifting virtual sphere with finesse are laying the foundation for the future of marketing.
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Potential Job Titles in Digital Marketing
- Channel Marketing Director
- Content Strategist
- Digital Marketing Manager
- Digital Strategist
- E-commerce Marketing Specialist
- Email Marketing Specialist
- Internal Marketing Specialist
- Paid Search Manager
- SEO and SEM Specialist
- User Experience Designer
- Virtual Reality Developer
- Web Marketing Manager