Mission, Vision & Values

Lehman College's School of Arts and Humanities mission is to make a significant contribution to the larger institutional mission to provide students with an excellent undergraduate and graduate liberal arts education because being broadly educated is a primary attribute of leading a successful life. Read More.

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Degree Programs

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Majors

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Minors

Welcome to the School of Arts and Humanities. The School of Arts and Humanities offers over thirty majors and forty minors. You can choose from majors in which you create original works, like Art, or Film and TV Studies, or Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGI); majors in which you perform on stage or in front of the camera, like Music, or Theatre, or Dance, or Multimedia Performing Arts; majors in which you develop your skills at writing and conducting your own research, like English, or History, or Journalism, or Philosophy, or Africana Studies; and majors in which you deepen your knowledge of languages and cultures, like Spanish, or French, or Italian, or Linguistics, or Latino Studies.

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Department News

Study Abroad and Serendipity

Summer course in Japan brings a Lehman family full circle

Heroic Encounters: La Borinqueña Creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez Receives Superhero Welcome

Heroic Encounters: La Borinqueña Creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez Receives Superhero Welcome

Professor Elevates Incarcerated Voices Through TEDx Events

Professor Elevates Incarcerated Voices Through TEDx Events

Professor Ricky Flores releases The South Bronx Family Album

The South Bronx Family Album is a 500 limited edition monograph of the South Bronx, from 1979 through the late 1980s, and covers the tumultuous times

Associate Professor, Teresita Levy named fellow of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' Leadership Academy

Associate Professor, Teresita Levy named fellow of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' Leadership Academy

Upcoming Events

October 31, 2024

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

¡Vamos a practicar Español juntos!

Join us every Thursday at the Lehman Language Center for a fun and relaxed Spanish Conversation Table. Whether you’re a beginner or just want to brush up on your skills, this is a perfect opportunity to improve your fluency!

November 3, 2024

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

FALL FROLIC Performances of Bernstein, Lecuona, Galante, Hanson, Press, Van Der Roost, Verdi, and a seldom performed oboe concerto By Bernard Schulé featuring soloist Dorothy Darlington.

Performances of Bernstein, Lecuona, Galante, Hanson, Press, Van Der Roost, Verdi, and a seldom performed oboe concerto By Bernard Schulé featuring soloist Dorothy Darlington.

November 19, 2024

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Reading with Thomas C. Spear: Les mascarades du Wisconsin

In a small Midwestern town that embodies the wholesome prosperity of the baby boom years, a foul-mouthed, wisecracking father rules over his brood. He is a gregarious eccentric who buried existential secrets when leaving behind his urban East Coast roots. In this novel, one of his sons addresses his father directly and posthumously to uncover their shared heritage and expose the patriarchal myth. It is a story of social imperatives that constrain and define masculinity in the American Heartl

November 20, 2024

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

In The Bronx: Brown Girls Can See Stars Too

In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck Is You Lookin' At?)* by Amalia Oliva Rojas, directed by guest artist Marina Montesanti

December 6, 2024

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditions for Ti-Jean and His Brothers Friday December 6, 2024 from 12-5pm in the Apex on Lehman College Campus, Room M18 for dance, singing, and acting auditions

The Theatre and Dance programs are holding auditions for Ti-Jean and His Brothers, by Derek Walcott Friday December 6, 2024 from 12-5pm in the Apex on Lehman College Campus, Room M18 for dance, singing, and acting auditions Ti-Jean and His Brothers by Derek Walcott, music by Andre Tanker directed by Rick DesRochers, choreography by Michael Manswell A dance/theatre collaboration from the Nobel Prize-winning playwright/poet and founder of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, Derek Walcott.