Marketing in the Age of AI

Students learn how to apply AI across every stage of the marketing lifecycle, from research and strategy to content creation and performance optimization. No AI expertise required.

What You'll Gain

Research & Insight:

Use AI tools to gather, analyze, and interpret market and customer data to uncover actionable insights.

Creative & Content:

Generate and refine marketing messages, visuals, and campaigns using AI for brand-aligned storytelling.

Ethics & Responsibility:

Apply ethical frameworks to ensure transparency, fairness, and accountability in AI-powered marketing.

Optimization & Strategy:

Leverage AI-driven analytics to optimize budgets, performance, and strategic decision-making across campaigns.

Modules

The curriculum is organized into flexible, task-based modules. Choose the ones that align with your objectives and map them directly into your existing syllabus.

Unit 2359: Leveraging generative AI as a learning partner

Explain how generative AI can support learning, exploration, and skill-building when used thoughtfully.

  • How generative AI can help learners explore new concepts, generate examples, and clarify ideas
  • Differences between using AI for answers vs. using AI as a thinking and learning partner
  • Ways to ask AI for explanations, practice questions, feedback, and alternative perspectives
  • Strengths and limitations of relying on AI during the learning process

Explain how communicating with generative AI differs from using traditional software or search tools.

  • How prompting differs from commands, search queries, and menu-based software interactions
  • Why natural language, context, and iteration matter when working with AI
  • How AI responses are shaped by instructions, examples, constraints, and user intent
  • Common misconceptions about AI interactions compared with traditional computing tools

Identify and combine prompt components that help produce clearer, more useful AI responses.

  • Core prompt components such as task, context, role, format, audience, examples, and constraints
  • How different components work together to shape AI output quality
  • Why context is especially important for professional and marketing-related AI tasks
  • How to refine prompts when the first response is incomplete, unclear, or misaligned

Analyze how different prompting techniques influence the quality, relevance, and usefulness of AI responses.

  • Prompting techniques that improve clarity, specificity, structure, and usefulness
  • How framing, examples, constraints, and requested output formats affect AI responses
  • How to compare outputs from different prompt approaches
  • How to evaluate whether an AI response is accurate, relevant, complete, and appropriate for the task

Compare how prompting strategies change when working with text, images, audio, video, or other media types.

  • How multi-modal AI systems process different kinds of inputs
  • Prompting strategies for text-based, visual, and mixed-media tasks
  • How media type affects the context, details, and instructions needed in a prompt
  • Marketing-related use cases such as reviewing creative assets, analyzing campaign visuals, or generating content variations

Explain foundational prompt engineering techniques used to guide generative AI outputs.

  • Basic prompt engineering techniques for improving AI responses
  • How to write clear instructions, provide relevant context, and specify the desired format
  • How to use examples, constraints, and iteration to improve results
  • Why effective prompting is a foundational skill for professional AI use

Apply prompt engineering techniques to create, revise, and improve text-based content.

  • Prompting strategies for drafting, revising, summarizing, and adapting text
  • How to guide tone, audience, length, structure, and purpose in AI-generated writing
  • How to use AI to support marketing content tasks while maintaining human oversight
  • How to review and improve AI-generated text for accuracy, brand fit, and usefulness

Explain how AI capabilities show up in marketing work and how they support professional marketing tasks.

  • Core AI capabilities applied in marketing contexts
  • How AI supports tasks such as customer insight, content generation, personalization, analysis, and optimization
  • How marketers use AI capabilities in professional workflows, not just casual tool use
  • Strengths and limitations of AI capabilities in marketing tasks

Describe how AI capabilities transform work across the marketing process.

  • AI’s role across the marketing process, including research & analysis, strategy & planning, creation & development, implementation & launch, and measurement & optimization
  • How AI changes marketing workflows, decision-making, and execution
  • Examples of where AI adds value across different marketing functions
  • Where human judgment, strategy, and oversight remain essential in AI-supported marketing work

A Look Inside the Learning Experience

Students learn through a variety of interactive materials and hands-on environments designed to build real-world skills.

Practical Learning Resources:

Content is designed to help students frame problems and structure their thinking.

Interactive Quizzes:

Questions are embedded in real-world scenarios, testing a student's ability to apply knowledge in context.

Practical Learning Resources:

For courses like Excel for Business Analytics, students work directly in a simulated environment to solve problems.

AI Strategy Spotlight — For Marketing Educators

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AI Is the New Marketing Advantage

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