This course will give students the opportunity to design and plan the data collection stages of their research process. After attending this course, students will be equipped with comprehensive skills necessary to undertake their field research work in the context of Myanmar and of the challenges created by the global and local social and political crisis. By the end of the term, each student will have developed its research proposal with project’s introduction and literature review section (including the research question), sample and sampling methods, data collection tools, data collection plan, and ethics and security plan.