Dana Hills High School - Visual and Performing Arts

Academics

Visual and Performing Arts

Students at Dana Hills High School can choose between a wide variety of year-long electives to meet their A-G Fine Arts requirement for UC/CSU campuses. Please reference our DHHS Course Catalog for a full list of course descriptions. Dana Hills is also home the South Orange County School of the Arts (SOCSA). Please visit the SOCSA Website for more information.

FACULTY

Jeanette Boyle, Culinary Arts

John Ginnaty, Ceramics

Natalie Hribar-Kelly, Digital Photo and Multimedia Design

Chau Tran, Drawing and Painting

James Caestacker, Band Director, SOCSA Band and Strings

Nathan Longdon, SOCSA Theater Arts

Lindsey Lee, SOCSA Dance

Ray Medina, SOCSA Vocal Music

Edward Tyson, Digital Media Art, Video Production and Sound Engineering

ADDITIONAL ELECTIVES

AVID Tutorial (G elective)
AVID II (G elective)
AVID III (G elective)
AVID Senior Seminar (G elective)
AVID Peer Tutor

CCA Culinary Arts Advanced (H) (G elective)

Drama Musical Comedy-FA (after-bell)
Drama Musical Comedy-PE (after-bell)

AP Computer Science A (C elective)
AP Computer Science Principles (Not NCAA)
CCA Career & Tech Investigations

CCA Sports Medicine Advanced (H) (G elective, not NCAA)
College and Career Planning (1 Sem, G elective)
Student Government ASU
Student Leadership ASU (G elective)

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS COURSES

ART

SOCSA Ceramics
SOCSA Ceramics Advanced
SOCSA Draw & Paint
SOCSA Draw & Paint Advanced
AP Art History

CULINARY ARTS

CCA Culinary Arts

DIGITAL MEDIA

CCA Digital Media Arts
CCA Digital Video Production (H)
CCA Digital Video Prod. Advanced (H)
CCA Sound Engineering (H)
CCA Adv. Sound Engineering (H)
SOCSA Digital Photography (H)
SOCSA Multimedia Design (H)
Publishing & Design Newspaper (H)
Publishing & Design Yearbook (H)

AP Studio Art 2D

DANCE (Video)

SOCSA Dance Production Advanced

DRAMA (Video)

SOCSA Drama IA
SOCSA Drama Advanced
SOCSA Actors Repertory (H)
SOCSA Fall Performance (H) (after-bell)

SOCSA Stagecraft Basics

SOCSA Stagecraft (H)

SOCSA Theatrical Production (H)

MUSIC (Video)

SOCSA Concert Band
SOCSA Wind Ensemble
SOCSA Strings
SOCSA Advanced Orchestra
SOCSA Chamber Orchestra
SOCSA Concert Choir
SOCSA Jazz Ensemble "Jazz Choir"
SOCSA Madrigals
SOCSA Commercial Music
AP Music Theory

*(H) indicates UC honors weighted course