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
Lehman Artists Bring 'City, Self, and the Spaces Between' to Midtown
Exhibition at Macquarie Group’s Community Art Gallery features work by students and recent alumni
Meet the Artists Behind the 2026 Lehman Lecture Mural
A synergy of individual strengths and personal vision
Will AI Make Us Stupid? Maeve Adams Weighs in at Salon
LLMs Won’t Destroy Our Capacity for Critical Thinking
Eighty Years Since First Meeting, United Nations Security Council Returns to Lehman
Campus played pivotal role in UN history
Meet Our Lehman Lecture Interviewers: Molly Varillas and Julisha Evans
Bringing storytelling, leadership, and Bronx pride to their roles
Lehman Welcomes Associate Dean John McCluskey
Administrative expertise will support the School of Arts and Humanities
Upcoming Events
May 3, 2026
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Master works for chorus and orchestra including Faure’s Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine, shorter works by Brahms, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Copland, Ravel, as well as a medley from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
May 6, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Political Authority: The Paradox and Promise of Constructivism in Politics
This book defends constructivism as a leading approach to formulating the moral basis of political authority. It addresses a central tension in constructivist theory: how principles can be both dependent on human deliberation and normatively objective.
May 6, 2026
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
English M.A. Information Session
Hope you will join us for this session!
May 13, 2026
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2026 English Awards and Prizes Ceremony
Join the English Department as they celebrate their 2026 graduates!
May 13, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Multimedia Performing Arts Projects 2026
The Department of Theatre, Dance, and Multimedia Performing Arts presents the "Multimedia Performing Arts Projects 2026. Featuring new and original multimedia work by: Janee Best, Jessica Donato Sanchez, Aaron Dumfeh, Saniya Edwards, David Guallpa, Shydae Hampton, Harmanjeet Kaur, Merville King Jr., Krismarie Loague
May 14, 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Join us for a glorious new interpretation of the RUMPELSTILTSKIN story. Composed by Professor Penny Prince and co-written by the cast, this musical tells the story of identity, tolerance, and alchemy.