This course is designed to prepare students to write their fourth year long essays.  (It is a required course for major students and an elective course for combined students.)This course introduces students to the basic tenets and practices of conducting research in the humanities. The course will focus on both library and field research.  By the end of the course, it is expected that students would be equipped with the necessary skills to formulate a topic, collect the required data and provide an analysis of data.