DPSY 938 Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods is designed for doctoral students seeking to enhance their research competencies from methods courses. Through this course, the students accomplish their dissertation proposal writing, requiring them to be competent in research designs. Thus, they make judgments about matching the appropriate research designs to their chosen research problems. The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, students learn more about methodologies in relation to other pertinent chapters of the dissertation proposal, and in the second part, they are required to complete that dissertation proposal.