HIS 4297 Dissertation
Course Description: This is a document produced by students at the end of their fourth year based on the independent research carried out on a selected historical topic. Students have to submit their research topics in the first semester third year. It should be a maximum thirty thousand word document written under the supervision, and, […]
HIS 4294 Society and Politics of Post-Colonial Sri Lanka
Course Description: This course is designed to provide an in-depth analysis of the political changes that took place in Sri Lanka since independence. The central themes of the course are the history of institutional development, political crises Sri Lanka experienced after independence, the rise of ethno nationalism, changes to party politics and changes in the […]
HIS 4292 Discourse Analysis of Popular History of Sri Lanka
Course Description: This course is designed introduce students to the vast field of popular history writing that is being produced on the history of the island, not necessarily by qualified experts in the field, but mostly by non-specialized writers who target the mass readership. This course will help students to engage in practical history, i.e., […]
HIS 4291 Languages for Historical Inquiry
Course Description: This course offers a basic knowledge in reading Pali, Tamil and Dutch languages in order to equip students for reading primary materials from the pre-colonial to the colonial period. Learning Objectives: The objective of this course is to introduce students to the language skills that they need to pursue a research career as […]
HIS 4276 Sri Lanka since Independence
Objectives The purpose of this course is to examine the creative forces and critical moments in the making of the socio-historical world of post-independence Sri Lanka. A thread that runs through the various topics covered is the assertion of rights of both the majority ethno-religious group and of the minority Tamils; the violent quest for […]
HIS 4193 Evolution of the Modern Historiography in Sri Lanka
Course Description: This course is designed to give fourth year students a comprehensive introduction to the modern historiography of Sri Lanka. The course will examine the evolution of historiography of Sri Lanka from early British period and the writing of History of Sri Lanka as a scientific historiography and mainstreaming History as a discipline. It […]
HIS 4190 History of Eastern Europe
Course Description: This course is designed to give students a basic understanding of Eastern Europe as a politically and strategically sensitive region since the eighteenth century. It covers the most important phases of the historical development of the region in the last two centuries such as the period of Eastern Question in the wake of […]
HIS 4189 The State, the Military, Revolts and Revolutions
Course Description: This course will look into main issues related to the themes on state building, the military, revolts and revolutions that have a major recognition in the history of the world and focus on the conflicts between competing agents of power and changing relations between the state and society from a historical perspective. Learning […]
HIS 4175 Selected Documents
Course Description: This course introduces students to documents that are used as sources of information in the field of history of Sri Lanka. Documents ranging from early Brahmi inscriptions to those produced in the early twentieth century, both traditional and non-traditional in nature, will be analysed in this course. Students will be trained not only […]
HIS 3272 History of Colonialism in Sri Lanka II
Course Description: This course addresses the structural changes that came about under British domination from the 1832 Colebrook-Cameron reforms up to the independence in 1948. Hence, this course discusses issues such as the emergence of new identities and identity politics, new religious practices and their consequences, landscape changes and ordering the space, economic changes and […]