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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Upcoming Events
October 21, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Rhetoric and Resistance: The Literary Arts of Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Maeve Adams
Rhetoric and Resistance explores the transformative role of 19th century literature in shaping modern concepts and practices of democratic dissent. By examining works of Romantic and Victorian novelists, poets, and journalists - Maeve Adams identifies origins of modern theories and practices of resistance in 19th century literary forms.
October 22, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Dance program at Lehman College presents Dance in Dialog
Dance in Dialog is an annual series aiming to start conversations about dance and explore making dances.
October 28, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Spanish Literature Information Session
Hope you will join us for this session!
November 2, 2025
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Varied favorites of wind band literature by Van der Roost, Bolcom, Wood, Sullivan, Denza, and a special performance of the Rimsky-Korsakov Trombone Concerto featuring soloist Doug Denniston.
November 12, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Theatre Program at Lehman presents, New Voices: The Student Playwriting Festival
A performance of new plays by Lehman student playwrights.
November 19, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Theatre Program at Lehman presents Sweat, a play by Lynn Nottage, directed by Felix Otero
Sweat is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Lynn Nottage. Set in Reading, Pennsylvania, it explores the lives of factory workers through the lens of a group of friends who work at the Olstead's steel tubing factory. Nottage examines themes of class, race, labor, and the American Dream.