‘Golden Jubilee Celebrations’- Inauguration
The teaching of Sociology was introduced at the University of Colombo within the Department of Sociology and Social Welfare in the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1969. Today, the Department of Sociology is one of the largest in the Faculty of Arts, with more than 1,000 students following courses in Sociology at both undergraduate […]
Community Outreach Programmes
The students of the Social Work Stream engage in various community outreach programmes to practice what they learn in classrooms. Linkages with the community in 2018 are as follows, Victoria Home for people with physical disabilities, Rajagiriya National Institute for Mental Health, Angoda and Mulleriyawa Positive Women’s Network (for people living with HIV), Rajagiriya Gamini […]
Awards and Prizes
Senior Professor Prof. Premakumara de Silva – Dean, Faculty of Arts with the co-author, Mr. Abeyratne Attanayaka, was awarded for the Best Translated Book (Academic) in the State Literary Awards Festival 2018, held on 11th September 2018, for the book titled ‘Modernity, Post-modernity and Neo-sociological Theories’ (නූතනත්වය, පශ්චාත් නූතනත්වය සහ නව සමාජ විද්යාත්මක න්යාය). This book was originally written by a Prominent Indian Sociologist, Professor […]
Social Events
As the Academic Year 2017/2018 comes to a close, we at the Department of Sociology bid farewell to a group of students who undertook our honours degree programme. Two social events were organised on 27th of November 2018 and on 29th of November 2018 to wish them well in their future endeavours. […]
Monthly Seminar Series- November 2018
The Department of Sociology organized the monthly seminar for the month of November, on Thursday 15th November 2018 from 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Department of Sociology. At this seminar, Mr. M. G. L. Mahesh Premarathna delivered the lecture on “New forms of Buddhism and the social formation in postwar Sri Lanka”, and Mr. K. Krishnaraj delivered […]
Field Training Programme
The Department organises a Field Training Programme every year for the third year students in the Sociology Special Programme to ensure that they are well versed in research skills. With funding from the University, the programme is organized for 5 consecutive days in an area in Sri Lanka. Each year a team of staff are appointed […]
Dr Newton Gunasinghe Memorial Lecture
The Department of Sociology, University of Colombo and the Sociology Alumni Association of University of Colombo, in collaboration with the Social Scientists Association of Sri Lanka have organized the 30th “Dr Newton Gunasinghe” Memorial Lecture, on the 16th May, 2018 at the Auditorium, Department of Sociology, University of Colombo from 3.00 pm – 4.30 pm. The lecture […]
