Students attend weekly seminar meetings that will provide an opportunity for the discussion of research issues in the visual and performing arts and/or the workplace or other matters affecting students' projects. The unit can be undertaken in two modes of study: Individual research or Company research.

Individual: The student designs and implements a project, usually complementing their central research focus through performance, choreography, secondment, teaching dance or theoretical and/or applied research. The project is supervised by an appropriate staff member.

Company: Students engage in workplace learning through activities conducted in a small company mode. Experience at a professional level of skill and responsibility in the processes of company management, promotion and production are supervised by appropriate staff members and guest choreographers.