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

Mark Christian Reads from New Book on Frederick Douglass

Biography is latest contribution to Bloomsbury series

An Actor Prepares—and Teaches at Lehman

Jennifer McCabe on acting and being

Lehman Alumna Named Official Representative of Dominican Diaspora

Celinés Toribio is DR Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Dominican Communities Abroad

HITN Features Journalism Prof. Miguel Perez, Making the Old New Again

Website focuses on North America's early Spanish history

Modern Language Association Honors New Publication by David Font-Navarrete

Translation of Lydia Cabrera's El Monte (1954) brings major study of Afro-Cuban traditions to English readers

$150K NEH Grant Funds New Writing Curriculum

Initiative is grounded in local history and archival research

Upcoming Events

February 19, 2025

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Admitted Students Days

Join Us for Admitted Students Day!

February 20, 2025

11:02 AM - 11:02 AM

GRAFFITI NATION

THE AWARD-WINNING FILM continues its dominance Join the Africana Studies Department in celebration of Black History Month! February 20th, 1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M. in MU-306

February 20, 2025

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Gloria Rolando - Cuban Film Documentarian - Celebrating Black History Month 2025

As part of Celebrating Black History Month 2025, Gloria Rolando, legendary Cuban Film Documentarian, will give a special lecture and interview related to her film "Nostros y El Jazz" ("The Jazz in Us") (2004) about the connection between African Americans and Afro Cubans through their shared love of jazz.

February 20, 2025

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Art Education M.A. Information Session

Hope you will join us for this session!

February 22, 2025

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Bach, Schumann and Beethoven

The Lehman Chamber Players perform Bach Two-part Inventions, Schumann Canonic Pieces, and Beethoven Trio in E-flat Major. Violinist Arthur Moeller, cellist Hamilton Berry, and Pianist Diana Mittler-Battipaglia.

February 25, 2025

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Prof. Lewis Gordon on "Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X at 100"

Prof. Lewis Gordon, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut, will give a talk on "Frantz Fanon and Malcolm X at 100" on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 1:30 p.m., in the Studio Theatre, as part of Black History Month.