The seminar II course emphasizes on the development of the skill of candidates to enable them reach the research frontier of the discipline. As part of the course, scholarly articles will be selected from recent publications or book chapters to develop a good understanding and provide sufficient background to enable the formulation of novel hypotheses and experimental testing. Some of the areas to cover include identification of problems addressed by a study, relevant background material from scientific literature to clarify current state of knowledge on the topic, method and approaches followed by the study, in-depth analysis of presented results, evaluation of the importance of the results and their implication, evaluation of the significance of the study, its merits and short-comings. Each candidate will be required to give a scientific presentation on one or more selected papers published in a peer-reviewed journal. As part of the course, each candidate will be expected to give a formal presentation on the research proposal the candidate intends to work on for the thesis as well as progress report on the research.