The document provides guidance for students choosing a topic for a critical research study. It lists various topic areas to choose from, such as women and film, politics and the media, and sport and the media. Students must then focus their study on a particular issue or question within their chosen topic. The document provides some example questions that could be investigated. It emphasizes generating a hypothesis in the form of a research question. Finally, it discusses sources and methods for carrying out primary and secondary research, such as questionnaires, interviews, and analyzing existing literature, reports and statistics.