Spring 2027

Qualitatively-based Marketing Insights

Qualitatively-Based Marketing Insights covers in-depth qualitative market research methods, emphasizing the interpretation of qualitative data through hands-on methodological techniques and cultural perspectives for systematic marketing.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Craig Thompson3.8/5

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand and use core methodological principles for designing a research project that highlights important relationships between the meanings that consumers attribute to brands and consumption practices and their socio-cultural positions.

  • Translate a cultural analysis of a consumer group into viable strategic actions.

  • Evaluate the key assumptions that are implicit to various methodological techniques used to generate qualitative data.

  • Assess the strengths, weaknesses, and respective degrees of “fit” of these methodological techniques for specific research problems and questions.

  • Critically evaluate the findings and strategic interpretations or results that derive from meaning-based marketing research.

  • Apply culturally-oriented theories and concepts that are useful in deriving breakthrough marketing insights from qualitative data.

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Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

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MARKETNG 805

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2021: 3.88 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

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Topics

  • In-depth qualitative market research methods
  • Interpretation of qualitative data
  • Cultural perspective in marketing analysis
  • Consumer brand meanings and socio-cultural positions

Skills

  • Designing research projects using core methodological principles for consumer brand meanings and socio-cultural positions
  • Translating cultural analysis of consumer groups into viable strategic actions
  • Evaluating key assumptions implicit to methodological techniques for generating qualitative data
  • Critically evaluating findings and strategic interpretations from meaning-based marketing research

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MARKETNG 805 · Spring 2027

Qualitatively-Based Marketing Insights

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