This Honours-level seminar course is designed to introduce students to higher-level academic research and writing in the disciplines of English, Film, Media, Music, Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. It will extend the research and analysis skills developed in the first three years of the degree to support the preparation and completion of students' first major piece of independent research – the Honours thesis and/or production project. It will introduce students to core issues in and approaches to research which will help them consolidate and extend their understanding of their chosen discipline and of the place of their research within it. The course is organised around a structured seminar series, beginning with a consideration of the nature of disciplinary research in the Humanities and moving on to consider the genre of the Honours thesis, and to developing a Research Plan and Thesis and/or project timetable.