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
Hochul administration allocates $1.5 million to the Institute of Mexican Studies
The funds will go toward expanding the Institute's work with academic resources for Mexican and Mexican-American students
Art and Dance Professors Create a 'Chromatic Altar' at Guggenheim
Dannielle Tegeder, Amy Larimer, and Lehman dancers reimagine museum as mystical space
John Belardo on the Six Bronx Brothers Who Shaped the City
"Sculpture Vulture" podcast highlights the Piccirilli Brothers
Penny Prince Spreads the Word about Reentry@Lehman
Committee founder interviewed on Bronx Buzz
Dressed to Impress: Amanda Wunder Wins Gordan Prize
History professor wins Renaissance Studies Association's Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize
Joseph Dauben Profiled for CUNY's Research in Focus
Distinguished professor shares thoughts about the impact of technologies like AI
Upcoming Events
April 1, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:06 PM
On April 1, 2025 at 5:00pm on the campus of Lehman College Multimedia Center, Carman Hall, for THE THIRD ANNUAL CUNY BEAT BATTLE begins another showdown between Hostos, Lehman (reigning 2-time champion), and other CUNY Audio Clubs, competing for the title of Best Producer. Paired producers will go head to head as they race against the clock to create the best beat. Each team will be given the same music samples and asked to put together a track within the time limit.
April 3, 2025
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Inheritance of Hiroshima Memories
“Memories of Hiroshima through Imagination”, a documentary written and narrated by Prof. Shizuko Tomoda, is a tribute to the hibakusha, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. They are witnesses of the devastation by the atomic bombing. The memory of the Hiroshima bombing must live on. The hibakusha’s experiences and the personal stories of their lives as a hibakusha testify that nuclear weapons and human life should not and cannot coexist. WORLD PREMIERE, followed by a Q&A
April 6, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Faculty Recital - Donna Elaine, flute
Flutist Donna Elaine gives a faculty recital accompanied by pianist Rie Matsumoto, featuring works by Bach, Rutter, Poulenc, Borne, and Bizet.
April 9, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Spring Dance Concert An evening of original choreography by majors and guest artists.
An evening of original choreography by majors and guest artists.
April 10, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Spring 2025 Queer Theater and Performance Speaker series
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (they/them) is an international award-winning multihyphenate Queer and Transgender artist noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer and the Park Avenue Amory as a “trailblazing XR artist to know”.
April 22, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Reading with Naomi Zack: Multiplicity, Belonging, and Free Speech in U.S. Higher
New realities in U.S. higher education present a multifaceted crisis for students, faculty, administrators, and society at large. This book provides incisive diagnoses of pressing problems and prescriptions to reinstate and support U.S. higher education as an intellectually and ethically valuable institution. Among problems addressed are: Supreme Court ban of affirmative action; falling enrollment and low retention; defunded humanities; unjust situation of adjunct instructors; college firsts c