MiraCosta College to Offer Highway 101 Course

In keeping with the academic tradition of offering introductory courses like Economics 101 and Biology 101, MiraCosta College will soon offer Highway 101 at its Cardiff campus.

The course will trace the nearly 100-year history of Highway 101 along its route through California, Oregon and Washington from Mexico to Canada. 

Because the approximately 1,700-mile Highway 101 has been traveled for nearly 100 years, a huge catalog of history has accumulated. The course will examine that history through written accounts, still photographs, movies and videos. The course will cover the various names for segments of the route and the origins of those names.

The MiraCosta College Highway 101 course will acknowledge the prominence of the route in the cultural history of the U.S. West Coast. Student response to the introductory course will determine if an advanced course will be offered subsequently.