The project is an elective course conducted during the Spring semester designed for students who have (1) achieved a satisfactory grade in the Graduate Research Seminar during the Fall semester and (2) submitted a satisfactory prospectus to the MALCS Programme Management Committee no later than the end of November during the previous semester. As supervised by a core member of staff, students undertaking the project should develop habits of mind necessary to engage rigorously with their chosen topic(s). The project enables students not only to develop their own critical thinking but also the potential to build communities of scholarship in their chosen area(s) of focus. The project demands the highest standards of research and writing. Aside from its intrinsic value as a piece of scholarship, the project should provide evidence (in the form of an article-length research output) of a given student’s worthiness for academic appointments or further studies.