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What is a Gap Year? Gap years have risen in popularity. In the past many students have taken a year off after graduating high school but before jumping right back into academics at their chosen colleges to experience living in this unique time of life. These gap years have now become an official thing. Now there are numerous versions of gap-year programs that revolve around various interests such as missions or humanitarian efforts, traveling, working or apprenticeships, or doing a little bit of everything with the major thrust of having fun. And in our current environs, there is a solid reason for questioning the validity of traditional college; so before a freshly graduated high school student goes off to learn about the subjects that will lead to a Baccalaureate degree and gets into debt, a gap year will give the student and parents the additional time needed to do their homework in terms of vocation and education.
Why prefer Imago Dei College’s Gap Year? There are a wide variety of choices when considering a gap year, but the IDC gap year offers some unique features. We combine bite sizes of the features of many other gap years such as cultural engagement, missions, academics, working and apprenticeships, life skills, and vocational direction, all under the Lordship of Christ; thinking God’s thoughts after Him, taking all thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ.
What’s perhaps the best feature is that we offer up to 30 transferable college units, meaning that the student can have a gap year without falling behind.
Why engage in Christian Worldview Discipleship? The culture is drifting farther and farther away from its Christian foundations, to a point of outright diametric opposition. Sadly, the Christian culture is in disrepair, and Western culture is on its heels headed for destruction, but all is not lost. Christian culture can and must be rebuilt but we need builders, many builders, younger builders. But Christian culture cannot be built unless it is properly built upon the immoveable Rock, not the shifting sands of our current cultural norms. We have the blueprints of the rebuild in God’s Word—tried and true for eternal significance—not the pragmatic misgivings of our foolish false prophets of doom or of false peace.
What Does the Imago Dei College Gap Year Include? Personal discipleship to guide the student through biblical and faithful living, and to take all thoughts captive to the obedience to Christ, and to prepare the student for life in college, adulthood, marriage, and parenthood. We will give the student basic life skills, intellectual tools, critical thinking aptitudes, cultural engagement and building, work ethics, opportunities for outreach to the downtrodden, and essential character for lifelong faithfulness.
What does the program Cost: $9,000 includes 30 transferable college course units, mentoring, apprenticeships, weekly special events, and the experience of a lifetime. The value of the academic units alone carries the average value of over $30,000 if the same units are taken at a Christian university.
What about the Academics: The 30 units are officially granted by the regionally accredited Colorado Christian University for the highest level of transferability. Even though this is a gap year, we will engage in academic discussions, writings, speeches, and projects that will keep the student on track for graduation in four years.
Courses: Old Testament, New Testament, Philosophy, English Composition, Personal Finance, Traditional Forms of Art, Speech, Theology/Apologetics, Foundations of Business, and Personal Health.