School of Arts and Humanities
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
Amy Larimer honored by the New York State Dance Education Association
Dance program director wins Innovative Dance Educator Award
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
Upcoming Events
February 22, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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.
February 25, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Spanish Teaching M.A. Information Session
Hope you will join us for this session!
February 26, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Ti-Jean and His Brothers by Derek Walcott
A dance/theatre collaboration from the Nobel Prize-winning playwright/poet and founder of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, Derek Walcott with music by legendary Caribbean composer, Andre Tanker.
March 5, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join us for a peaceful meditative experience in our exhibition, set within the stunning architecture of Marcel Breuer’s design.
March 12, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
History, MA Information Session
Hope you will join us for this session!