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The English Department has always been a strong teaching and research department which is committed to the harmonious relationship between teaching, research and larger concerns of society. The University of Kelaniya boasts the largest student body of any English department in the country. It practices an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and has accommodated changes that reflect the development of English studies around the world. Thus, members of the faculty contribute to teaching by bringing in their multidisciplinary research interests into their English courses from such areas as French and South Asian Literature, Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies, Social Sciences, Critical Theories, Linguistics and Language Studies, Post-Colonial Literature, Sri Lankan Literature, Disapora Studies and Cultural Studies. In keeping with the needs of the students at a professional level, the English department also includes in its curriculum, courses which are geared to develop and enhance soft skills, communication skills and professional skills which are on par with the overall vision of the University of Kelaniya. Making English department students employable has always been the commitment of its faculty. Graduates of the department have gone on to excel in journalism, advertising and the foreign service among many other careers. In short, our concern at the Department of English is not only to teach literature as a passive reflector but as an active agent in the moluding of culture, values, ethics and personalities.

The subject of Mass Communication was started in 1973 as a carrier oriented course. The founding committee members appointed by the UGC in 1973 were Prof. Wimal Dissanayaka, Prof. Sunanda Mahendra, D.C. Ranathunge,Edwin Ariyadasa, Prof. M.B Ariyapala and Prof. Ediriwira Sarachchandra. Founding lecturers were Prof. Wimal Dissanayaka, Prof. Sunanda Mahendra. while Edwin Ariyadasa, D.B Nihalsinghe K. Jayathilaka, W.D Amaradewa,D.C Ranathunga and Piyasiri Gunarathna were appointed as visiting Lecturers. Courses were conducted in Sinhala, Tamil, and English (Tamil and English courses were continued up to 1982 only).

History The Department of Industrial Management of the University of Kelaniya was established in 1967 with the objective of teaching management to students reading for degrees in the science streams. Professor Milo Wolf a visiting Fulbright Scholar who pioneered the setting up of the Faculty of Science at the University of Kelaniya promoted the concept of teaching management to students following science subjects for the first time in Sri Lanka. The then Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor I. Balsooriya, Prof. C.R Kulatillake and Prof. C. Dahanayake played an important role in the setting up of the new department. Their pioneering efforts were aptly supported by local experts from the private sector, Dr Anton Balasuriya and Dr Ranjith Cabral of Unilever Ceylon, and Mr Mahinda Karunarathne who guided the Department in the absence of full time senior academic staff. Dr. David C Dellinger from the University of North Carolina, another Fulbright Faculty, initiated the Special Degree program in 1980s. Dr Lalith Goonatillake, gifted with wide international academic and industry experience became the first Professor of the Department and contributed aggressively to move the Department into a wider spectrum of activities, extending to international arena. The number of staff who were skilled in varied professions enabled the department to become aggressively extrovert in the 1980’s. We can be proud that, today, we have a combination of highly qualified academic staff trained in both management and in information technology areas which is unsurpassed anywhere in a single academic department in the country. The Department moved into the novel areas of training and consultancy, and collaborated with many agencies to provide new vistas to our stakeholders: UN, UNIDO, UNESCO, The World Bank, OECD, SIDA, and the Asian Development Bank, to name a few of them. We have achieved national recognition by being selected to house the Center for Enterprise Management Information Services (CEMIS) in Sri Lanka. This center that was funded by the UNDP and managed by UNIDO has the Ministry of Industrial Development and the Ceylon National Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CNCI) as partners of the project. We also have gained recognition by SIDA as an authorized trainer of small-scale entrepreneurs in the Asian region. Our students enjoy a very high employability level and are most sought after by the industry as a productive human input to their organizations. Our staff aggressively pursues novel endeavors to benefit the industry through collaborative, application oriented research, and work with international agencies to ameliorate the professionalism of managers and entrepreneurs. These activities have enabled us to develop a long-term productive relationship with our clients that mutually benefit the industry, the department and most importantly the student population. Academically, we have progressed from the mere offering of Industrial Management as a single subject for fifteen students as part of the general degree in science, to introduce a special degree, enlarge the domain of learning into operational research and information technology, and to introduce three postgraduate programmes. We have fully transformed the conventional “one subject for the degree” concept into a separate degree in Management and Information Technology. Fifty selected students are provided with the opportunity to empower themselves with a degree which combines management and information technology, the mix of which makes students productive, modern in their outlook, and mobile. The most significant transformation of the Department since its inception is the blending of the two areas of knowledge and skills: Management and Information Technology, the combination of which provides a wide arena of conceptual and applied skills. The two postgraduate diploma programmes: Industrial and Business Management, and Information Technology, and our Masters Degree programme in Management and Information Technology are aimed at professionals and academics who aspire to acquire greater application skills in these areas. With our lineage on out-bound activity, we engage our students in participatory training programs, to develop their leadership and communicational skills in particular. These activities are mandatory for all of our students and trainees. Our out-bound activities include field experience, internship training and camp style interactive training.

The Department of fine Arts, established in 1975 was the first academic department at a Sri Lankan University dedicated to the study of Drama & Theatre in performances

කැළණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සමාජ විද්‍යාව විශේෂ උපාධි අපේක්ෂකයින් විසින් නිර්මාණය කරන ලද මෙම පිටුව හා එක් වන්නට සමාජ විද්‍යාවට ආදරය කරන සැමට ආරාධනා කර සිටිමු.

The Department of fine Arts, established in 1975 was the first academic department at a Sri Lankan University dedicated to the study of Drama & Theatre in performance. We were also the first to introduce the practical and theoretical study of photography. As the department of Fine Arts expanded its scope, four major streams were introduced in 2005. Today Drama and Theatre and Image Arts Unit is very special section in the department of fine Arts of faculty of Humanities. The unit has always been a strong teaching section and large concern of performing and cultural activities in the University. Our unit offers a lively inter disciplinary environment for the practice and study of Theatre Arts and Photography. Our resources include a well-equipped photo studio. As a progressive and innovative unit, new areas of study and methodology such as play production video production Art photography exhibition have also integrated in to curriculum.