This course is a 100% research work and is suitable for students who would be interested to purse Masters by research. Students are expected to work independently with minimal supervision in the conduct of the research project including the identification of a research topic, literature review, proposal writing, field work and data collection, data analysis, oral presentation to the whole class and the submission of a report following a scientific journal format. Note that the project is an individual research work. It is also important to note that before registering for this course, students must first seek out a supervisor, obtain their agreement to provide supervision and be assigned a research topic.