Study the nature of research, types of research, criteria for selecting research problems, problem formulation, hypotheses/assumptions, variables, operational definitions of variables, research designs, arts and culture theories, data collection techniques, data analysis techniques, population and samples and targets research, writing research proposals, writing research reports, publishing research results and writing scientific articles on arts and culture. Lectures are carried out in the form of theory, assignments, seminars (qolokium) and workshops. The final product of this course is a research proposal