This seminar program is designed to introduce you to higher-level research in the Humanities. It will extend the research and analysis skills developed in the first three years of your degree to support the preparation and completion of your first major piece of independent research – your Honours production or thesis. It will introduce you to core issues, processes and approaches to historical, theoretical and practical research. This will help you consolidate and extend your understanding of your chosen discipline and of the place of your research within it. The course is organized around a structured progression from beginning research, through processes of critical argumentation or argument through practice, to thesis writing.

As an Honours course, Research Methods and Thesis Writing focuses on developing higher-level research skills in order to enable you to work independently on demanding research tasks and to present your work formally. At the completion of the course, you will be familiar with a range of research practices and will have produced a detailed research plan for your Honours thesis or production.