# Adult High School (HSIFA) (HSIFA) courses

MiraCosta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 4 courses

Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/continuingeducation/adulthighschooldiploma/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### HSIFA 11 — Introduction to Fine Arts 1 - The History and Development of Theatre

- **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/hsifa.md)
- High School Credits: 5
- Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students will explore the diverse cultural traditions that have shaped theatre throughout history. Students' review of global perspectives and practices will emphasize inclusive, respectful, and critically engaged understandings of the role of theater and its elements from its prehistoric beginnings to the present.

### HSIFA 12 — Introduction to Fine Arts 2 - Art and Music

- **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- High School Credits: 5
- Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

In this course, students will explore the history and development of art and music with a commitment to cultural sensitivity and responsiveness, emphasizing diverse perspectives and representation. Topics include a review of the prehistoric origins of art, architecture, and music, through the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, and up to contemporary art and music.

### HSIFA 13 — Beginning Film and Digital Media Production

- **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- High School Credits: 5
- Course Typically Offered: Spring

This course offers a basic introduction to the video production environment. Students work with a team on a project through the pre-production, shooting, and post-production phases of narrative storytelling for the screen. Students critique professional and peer work while using appropriate film and video vocabulary. Students also learn basic operational skills for the video camera and editing system so that they can demonstrate their understanding of film techniques while creating video projects. Instruction covers film production, script writing, editing, and critical thinking. (May be repeated once.)

### HSIFA 14 — Introduction to Fine Arts 3: The History of Film

- **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/hsifa.md)
- High School Credits: 5
- Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

In this history of film class, students view, study, discuss, and write about films from various genres and different time periods. They develop and demonstrate technological, cultural, and media literacy skills as well as critical thinking and problem-solving skills that will serve them well in the real world. This course presents students to the basics of film analysis, cinematic elements, genre, and narrative structure. Students obtain the skills to identify, analyze, and appreciate film as an art and entertainment form, and they learn and become aware of films from a diverse group of writers and directors.