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
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Lehman College Alumna Miryam Juarez Leads Mariachi Perla Mexicana de NYC to Madison Square Garden
2025 graduate is youngest woman in NYC to front mariachi band
New Study Reveals Changes in NYC’s Dominican Community
Significant drop since 2021
Upcoming Events
December 2, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Faculty pianist Molly Morkoski performs three of Mozart’s most beloved piano sonatas, including the one he wrote just after his mother’s passing.
December 2, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Audio Club & Urban Unity Open House
Sing a song, play your beats meet friends. Come to the Multimedia Center (basement Carmen Hall) on December 2nd 2025 from 3pm to 5:45pm for refreshments and fun.
December 3, 2025
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join the Art Department for their popular Pottery Sale!
December 7, 2025
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Winter Concert Lehman College & Community Chorus Lehman Symphony Orchestra
Master works for chorus and orchestra including Vivaldi’s Gloria in D Major, additional works by Mozart, Brahms, Rutter, and Handel, as well as multicultural seasonal selections and a holiday sing-along for the audience.
December 8, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Film Screening: "A Portrait of Michel" (Remembering Disappeared Syrians)
December 8 will be the 1-year anniversary of the fall of the Hafez al-Assad regime. Jennifer MacKenzie (English & Journalism and Media Studies) will be screening a short (43-minute) documentary, "A Portrait of Michel", by Christine Gedeon, a Syrian-American filmmaker, about her disappeared uncle, Dr. Michel Saadé, a young Paris-trained doctor who was abducted and imprisoned during the rule of Hafez al-Assad. Director Gedeon will answer questions about the documentary after the screening.