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USF Continuing Education - Marketing and Public Relations
Marketing and Public Relations
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Marketing and Public Relations

Gain practical skills you can apply immediately to your work as a public relations practitioner.

  • Build a greater public awareness of your organization
  • Design effective PR marketing and sales presentations
  • Discover trends in fund-raising and event planning that deliver superior results
  • Create professional publications and use the internet as a marketing tool
  • Improve communications with the public, other agencies and corporations, and the media

Courses may be taken individually or as part of the Marketing and Public Relations Certificate program.

USF Certificate

Marketing and Public Relations Certificate

Effective public relations is a critical skill set in both private and public sectors. Individuals who can apply the principles of public relations in a strategic way are becoming increasingly valuable to organizations. This certificate program explores the role of public relations in agencies and organizations today, and provides you with practical skills that you can apply immediately to your work as a public relations practitioner.

To earn the Marketing and Public Relations Certificate, you must complete four core courses and two electives within a two-year period. When you have completed the requirements of the program, you may request your certificate. Non-certificate students may enroll in individual courses.

Core Courses

  • Creative Advertising
  • Integrated Marketing
  • Public Relations Theory and Practice
  • Public Relations Writing

Electives

  • Branding for Customer Loyalty
  • Dynamic Presentations
  • Media Relations
  • Special Event Planning

For more information, contact Lisa Orr, program coordinator:

Email: lisaorr@admin.usf.edu  •  Phone: 813-974-5526


Branding for Customer Loyalty

In this hands-on course you will learn how to unleash the power of your brand for maximum success. Discover what branding is, how it works and why branding is becoming so crucial to success in today's competitive marketplace.

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Creative Advertising

In this dynamic, hands-on course you will explore proven techniques that help you deliver your advertising message in a memorable and effective way. You will examine case studies of breakthrough creative campaigns and analyze them to pinpoint why they worked. Learn how hooks, messages, calls to action and markers are skillfully combined to create a truly great ad campaign.

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Dynamic Presentations

Learn to communicate with ease and confidence. Make your content concise and interesting, calm the presentation jitters, and design visuals that enhance your presentation.

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Integrated Marketing

This course will provide practical, strategic, and proven marketing ideas that will help focus your efforts and maximize results. Learn techniques for developing a highly successful strategic communications program, and position your organization ahead of the crowd.

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Interactive Media Tools and Strategies

Social and digital media have created new styles, formats and expectations for interactive communication. There is not so much an audience, but rather a community and every story is global. People want instant news, 'infotainment,' direct communication and transparency. Public relations professionals need to grasp social media and their technologies in order to successfully participate in the conversation. The audience is creating the message and the best way a PR professional can respond is to listen and participate. Transparency and honesty are at the forefront of this type of communication.

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Media Relations

Examine effective ways to cultivate a positive relationship with the media. You will learn how to use press releases, conferences and other tools to get your message across. This course will also help you to develop an effective crisis communications plan.

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Public Relations Theory and Practice

This foundation course examines PR practice areas, its role in achieving the organization's goals, the roles and responsibilities of PR practitioners, and their internal and external relationships.

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Public Relations Writing

Clear, concise, persuasive writing is key to effective public relations. Learn and practice new writing skills, tailor messages for varied audiences and media, and produce public relations documents common to media kits.

     12/10/09 - 12/11/09, USF Tampa

Special Event Planning

In this course you will learn the secret to creating unique and successful special events such as galas, fundraisers, health fairs and similar special events including weddings. This session will include planning and research, implementation, on-site management, contracts, vendors and budgets.

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