x Linda x said:
what can i expect from marketing @ TAFE? I am about to begin soon.....is there anything advertising related??? cos that was what i am really interested in, but the courses r offered too far away frm me so i'm doing marketing instead.
since you mentioned distance as being an issue, you could try doing advertising via OTEN..?? that's what i'm doing... i live about 10-12hrs (by car) from the nearest place that advertising is offered... but it only goes up to cert IV level for distance, you'd have to go to sydney to get dip/adv dip.... what level course are you looking at?
it's pretty hard to get motivated tho (for OTEN), expecially since the first general subjects are sort-of boring (i'm currently enrolled in Identifying business skills, Marketing mix, Intro to E-business marketing, Intro to Tourism marketing and Implementing Customer Service Strategies. Some parts are interesting and pretty helpful. So far my advertising course has been mainly marketing-related, but that will change as i've only just started.
Advertising and Marketing are pretty similar, so you'd find some stuff advertising- related in your course.... but of course the cert. in advertising would be more relevant to you... try OTEN (you can enrol with them anytime), maybe you can co-enrol with TAFE and OTEN, doing the marketing modules at your local tafe and doing the advertising modules via distance ed... or you could do two courses (marketing and advertising) at once and get credit where modules overlap?? (don't know if that's possible tho)
good luck