With an emphasis on theoretical strengthening and research capacity development, this course aims to practice the research methods, enhance their proposals and prepare them for the coming residential during the summer. Students will be required to finalize team-members, improve the literature review part of their proposals, finish preliminary research and design interview questions for targeted interviewees. Particular emphasis will be placed on the critical evaluation of both published research and raw data as presented in a variety of formats. Students will be able to integrate the theories with the research methods in the proposals.