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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In New Podcast, History Professor Benjamin Holtzman Discusses NYC's Fiscal Crisis

"Soundscapes NYC" spotlights his 2021 book The Long Crisis

Scrapyard Challenge Teaches Interface Design with Found Objects

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From the Classroom to Carnegie: Music Professors Compose and Conduct for Young Musicians

From the Classroom to Carnegie: Music Professors Compose and Conduct for Young Musicians

Lehman Faculty Earn BRES Research Grants

Two Lehman College faculty members earned 2025–2026 BRES Faculty Fellowships

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