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As you design your syllabus, you may want to carefully consider all of the tangible cues that you are
providing (in addition to the description of the course content) and use them in the most effective way to
positively communicate with students. Possibilities include: 1) choice of wording and fonts; 2) visual
appeal (e.g., adequate “white spaces” and color of paper); 3) personal touches (e.g., humor, clip art and
quotes); and 4) clear but friendly statements of course objectives, performance expectations and class
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format. As mentioned above, you can also get students directly involved if you are willing to wait until
the second class to pass out your syllabus. Students can work in small groups on the first day to vote on a
color for “their” syllabus and to identify one “house rule” that they would like to see followed throughout
the semester. The color selection votes and house rules can then be collected. When the syllabus is
distributed during the next class period, your students will be very interested to see which syllabus color
and house rules were selected.
Most of the syllabi listed in the tables that follow were designed for use with previous editions of the
Zeithaml, Bitner, and Gremler text. However, with a couple of exceptions, the topics of the seventh
edition of the textbook are the same as in previous editions. So, these syllabi should be useful resources
for you as you design your services marketing course. Undergraduate syllabi are included in the first
table, graduate syllabi in the second table. Each table lists distinct syllabi and identifies the instructor and
his/her institution, the title of the class, and course length, and includes a hyperlink to a PDF version of
the syllabus. That is, each syllabus listed in the tables below has been saved in PDF format on Dwayne
Gremler’s web site (www.gremler.net). You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to open
the PDF formatted files. (If you would like to add your syllabus to the list, send an e-mail message to
Dwayne Gremler at gremler@bgsu.edu.)
Dwayne Gremler Bowling Green State MKT 4050 Services Marketing 15 weeks • PDF
University (Spring 2012) (30 sessions)
• URL
*This course used the Canadian Edition by Zeithaml, Bitner, Gremler, Mahaffey, and Hiltz (2007) published by
McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
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SAMPLE GRADUATE SERVICES MARKETING SYLLABI
Weeks
Instructor Institution Course Number Course Title (Date) (Sessions) PDF and/or URL
Mary Jo Bitner Arizona State University MKT 591 Services Marketing and 8 weeks • PDF
Management (16 sessions)
(Spring 2011)
Mary Jo Bitner Arizona State University MKT 591* Excel at Service(s) 4 days • PDF
(Fall 2007) (16 sessions)
(Executive Course)
Michael Bowers Rollins College MKT 607 Services Marketing 14 weeks • PDF
(Spring 2012) (14 sessions)
Susan Keaveney University of Colorado at MKTG 6040 Services Marketing 15 weeks • PDF
Denver (Fall 2011) (15 sessions)
Carolyn Massiah University of Central MAR 6845 Services Marketing 15 weeks • PDF
Florida (Spring 2008) (15 sessions)
Mark Rosenbaum Northern Illinois University Marketing 505 Introduction to Marketing: 7 weeks • PDF
Focus on Services (7 sessions)
Marketing
(Fall 2007)
(Executive Course)
Janet Wagner University of Maryland BUMK 736 Service Marketing 7 weeks • PDF
(Spring 2011) (7 sessions)
Valarie Zeithaml University of North MBA 751 Services Marketing 7 weeks • PDF
Carolina (Spring 2012) (14 sessions)
*This course used a Chinese Edition of the text. This version is a Simplified Chinese translation edition of Zeithaml
and Bitner’s (2003) third edition of Services Marketing: Integrating Customer Focus Across the Firm, jointly
published by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) Co. and China Machine Press.
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