FHSS Orientation 2026
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
All orientation updates come through the We@FHSS app. Install it now
Welcome to Orientation 2027
Three steps to a confident start at the Faculty.
Orientation Programme 2026 begins, Thursday 1 January, 1.00 pm
Bandaranayake Lecture Hall
Your first three steps
Do the first two before you come to the university.
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Install We@FHSS
Every orientation update reaches you through the Faculty app. Your login details come by email before orientation starts.
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Explore your faculty
Take the virtual tour, meet the departments and watch the video guides.
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Join us on campus
Thursday 1 January 2026, 1.00 pm, at the Bandaranayake Lecture Hall.
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Install We@FHSS before you arrive
The Faculty shares every orientation update through the app. Email is kept for the first, mandatory notices only, including your app login.
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Your login details come by email
The Faculty will email your own We@FHSS credentials before the orientation starts. Keep checking your email account of the email address that you gave to the UGC, including the spam folder.
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Download We@FHSS
From the App Store or Google Play.
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Sign in with the credentials we email you
Use the email account and password sent to you (Thats your unique email address you get from the faculty), not a personal email.
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Allow the permissions it asks for
So lecture reminders, attendance and Faculty notices reach you.
Official We@FHSS screens. They change every few seconds; use the dots to pick one.
Orientation
A guided start for new batches, from the first day to the first exam.
Faculty notices
Announcements sent to your faculty, department or batch only.
Information Hub
Exam rules, registration steps and other guides in Sinhala and English.
Lecture and course feedback
Short surveys after lectures and at the end of a course, so teaching keeps improving.
Run by the Faculty. No advertising, no tracking, no location data, and nothing is sold. Need help? Visit the CDEPD or ICT Department of the Faculty.
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Six ways into your faculty
Each one opens a part of the orientation website. Start with the tour.
Join us for the Orientation Programme 2027
Meet your Faculty, your lecturers and your new classmates. In person on campus from Monday 7 to Friday 18 December 2026.
Where: Bandaranayake Lecture Hall
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Mode: In person on campus
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Download full agenda
The full agenda is in Sinhala. Changes are announced on We@FHSS.
Your programme at a glance
Pick a day to see its sessions.
Essential Information for Students
ප්රථම වසර සිසුන් සඳහා විශේෂ නිවේදනය
Special notices for first-year students. Each opens on Google Drive, ready to download.
Greetings from the Dean of FHSS
Notice, Google Drive
University enrolment of students
Notice, Google Drive
Notice from Physical Education Unit, USJ
Notice, Google Drive
Academic Calendar
Notice, Google Drive
2024/2025 1st Semester Master Time Table
Notice, Google Drive
Undergraduate Prospectus 2026
Faculty website
Video guides for your first weeks
Short videos on the things new students ask about most. Each plays on YouTube.
Orientation Introduction Video 2026
Start here: the Faculty in a few minutes.
How to use the We@FHSS app
[Add the YouTube link]
What are AR and AF numbers?
Your index and exam numbers
Learning Management System (LMS)
How to use the Faculty LMS
What are semesters and course units?
How your degree is structured
Online subject registration
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, USJ
Microsoft Office 365
Your Faculty email and Office apps
Your university identity card
Issued by the University of Sri Jayewardenepura
නිදහස් හා සුරක්ෂිත විශ්වවිද්යාල අධ්යාපනයක් උදෙසා වන නීතිමය රැකවරණය
Legal protection for a free and safe university education
Sixteen departments, twelve centres
Every department and unit has its own website. Pick one to visit.
Departments (16)
Centres and units (12)
About Our Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is committed to the development of the community and the nation at large through the dissemination and enhancement of knowledge enriched with the country’s cultural heritage.
The faculty has given prominence to develop the IT skills and communicative competence of the students. Introducing self-access learning centers, language laboratories, and modern facilities and methodologies of English training witnesses some of the efforts of the faculty to improve these skills of the students.
Thus, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences which in fact is a heritage to the whole nation is engaged in the mission of producing high-quality graduates by offering them curricular, institutional training programs and study programs corresponding to the national development and sensitivity to global requirements.
Before you arrive, fill in the Freshers Survey 2026
All new students, please fill in this Google Form before you come to the university.
සියලුම නවක සිසුන් විශ්ව විද්යාලයට පැමිණීමට පෙර පහත ගූගල් පෝරමය පිරවීමට කාරුණික වන්න.
Opens Google Forms in a new tab.
Faculty and university
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Photograph: a frame from the faculty’s Orientation 2026 video.