Head: Ven. Prof. Kivulegedara Narada
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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura,
Nugegoda,
Sri Lanka.
The Department of Sinhala, one of the pioneer academic Departments of this University, has contributed immensely to the enhancement of the quality of Sinhala language education, particularly at the tertiary level. At present, in keeping with the academic and professional needs of the country, the Department of Sinhala and Mass communication offers Special and General Degrees in both these fields.
Under the subject of Sinhala, course units focus on deferent aspects of the discipline and cover its major areas such as Literature, Language Studies and Cultural Studies. Furthermore, it is expected to broaden the knowledge of the students on the language usage pertaining to the supportive languages such as Pali, Sanskrit, Tamil and English.
The course units of Mass communication are designed to meet the needs of this field and to strengthen the career prospects of our students. However the primary objective of the Department is to provide our students with the necessary orientation relevant to the field and pensive awareness of the theoretical and the practical aspects of Journalism and Mass communication.