The Department of Music offers a 59-credit major in music leading to the B.S. degree. The undergraduate program offers a general program of study with emphasis on theory, musicianship, history, and performance within a liberal arts college curriculum. Graduates of the music program will be prepared for further study in all avenues of music. Visit the Department.
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Two Lehman Students Win Top Prizes in CUNY-wide Labor Arts Contest
April 18, 2013 10:18 am English Dept, Lehman College Art Gallery, Macaulay Honors College, School of Arts and HumanitiesTwo Lehman College studies have been named first- and second-prize winners in a CUNY-wide contest designed to celebrate labor arts by using creative works to honor working people. Ariella Michal Medows, a McCauley Honors College student who attends Lehman College claimed first place, while Samontha Forbes, took home the second-place prize.
Read More »English Professor to Serve on Panel About Women’s Tattoo Art
April 11, 2013 1:56 pm English Dept, School of Arts and HumanitiesProfessor Margot Mifflin (English) will participate in a panel discussion, titled “Art, Sex, and Power: Tattooed Women Today,” at the Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on Saturday, April 13, at 2 p.m.
Read More »Billy Collins Brings the NYPL’s Academy of Teachers to Lehman College
March 29, 2013 1:12 pm English DeptRecently teachers from the metropolitan area had a chance to study poetry with one of the most celebrated American poets: Lehman College’s Distinguished Professor of English Billy Collins—the former two-time U.S. Poet Laureate.
Read More »Professor Margot Mifflin’s Book on Women’s Tattoo Art is Released
January 30, 2013 4:55 pm English Dept, School of Arts and HumanitiesThe book features 200 color photographs, 50 of which are new, of tattooed women and tattoo artists dating back to the nineteenth-century.
Read More »Lehman College and Hostos Community College Cosponsor Festival de la Palabra Oct. 9-11
October 3, 2012 2:38 pm English Dept, Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies Dept, School of Arts and HumanitiesLehman will welcome authors Awilda Cáez, Rosa Beltrán, Mayra Santos-Febres, Julio Ricardo Varela, José Manuel Fajardo, and Hilda García on Thursday, October 11, for a panel discussion on “Writing Across Genres and Oceans: The Evolution of Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing for English and Spanish-Speaking Audiences.”
Read More »Prof. Perl Reflects on Working for Social Change
July 24, 2012 4:26 pm English Dept, In the News, School of Arts and HumanitiesProfessor Sondra Perl (English), who helped to establish the Holocaust Educators Network, reflects in this YouTube interview on the role of the individual as an agent of social change. Visit http://youtu.be/0Ukwx0ChiYo. Email This Page
Read More »Author and Administrator Named New Dean at Lehman College
July 17, 2012 2:12 pm English Dept, School of Arts and HumanitiesDr. Deirdre Pettipiece, a scholar and author and most recently the associate dean of arts and sciences at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, has been named the new dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Lehman College.
Read More »Winners Announced from 2012 Labor Arts/CUNY Contest
June 12, 2012 4:39 pm English Dept, School of Arts and HumanitiesTen undergraduates in the senior colleges of the City University of New York have won prizes for Making Work Visible, the 2012 Labor Arts/CUNY Contest, held annually to celebrate the achievements of the U.S. labor movement.
Read More »Two Bronx Residents Capture Top Honors at Commencement
June 11, 2012 3:43 pm English Dept, Psychology Dept, Student Awards, StudentsTwo Bronx residents, Lisa Blanco and Leah Fredman, captured the top honors at Commencement this year.
Read More »Lehman Professor Leads Holocaust Educators on Visit to Historical Sites in Poland and Israel
April 26, 2012 12:30 pm English Dept, School of Arts and HumanitiesLehman English Professor Sondra Perl recently led seventeen teachers from across the United States on an educational tour of historical sites in Poland and Israel.
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