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Classical Arts School 1 ( ATS 259 )

The course gives students the opportunity to understand how to use their gifts in the art field and develop their professional skills. The course provides students with deep theoretical and practical knowledge in painting and drawing, composition, techniques of oil painting and various art topics. The main goal of the course is to educate the young generation in the arts in a professional way, and enhance their skills. This course is built hybrid with professional art lessons, learning books, online classical art lessons, one-to-one feedback and professional advice from the art instructors, along with people that are embedded in a apostolic missions learning community in YWAM. Any level of technique is welcome whether a beginner or more advanced. Students who already have professional skills will get a chance to improve further and proceed with advanced tasks, meanwhile the beginners will have a chance to receive a strong foundation and start truly from scratch. Students will get videos, which contain tasks with increasing difficulty from simple things to harder ones. Students will be given individual feedback on their works and be part of monthly co-hort group meetings with instructors online and within their YWAM learning community. The program will include one month onsite in a YWAM base bringing all the cohorts together. The students would be able to develop their personal art works and have opportunities to be art teachers on location. The students of the University of the Nations will have a chance to get a double certificate from the University of the Nations and the Florence Classical Arts Academy. In case the student desires to pursue studies with the Florence Classical Arts Academy further, this course will be already considered as the part of completed credits. The diploma of FCAA is approved by the Tuscany Region and is valid in Italy and EU countries.

Classical Arts School 1 ( ATS 259 )

The course gives students the opportunity to understand how to use their gifts in the art field and develop their professional skills. The course provides students with deep theoretical and practical knowledge in painting and drawing, composition, techniques of oil painting and various art topics. The main goal of the course is to educate the young generation in the arts in a professional way, and enhance their skills. This course is built hybrid with professional art lessons, learning books, online classical art lessons, one-to-one feedback and professional advice from the art instructors, along with people that are embedded in a apostolic missions learning community in YWAM. Any level of technique is welcome whether a beginner or more advanced. Students who already have professional skills will get a chance to improve further and proceed with advanced tasks, meanwhile the beginners will have a chance to receive a strong foundation and start truly from scratch. Students will get videos, which contain tasks with increasing difficulty from simple things to harder ones. Students will be given individual feedback on their works and be part of monthly co-hort group meetings with instructors online and within their YWAM learning community. The program will include one month onsite in a YWAM base bringing all the cohorts together. The students would be able to develop their personal art works and have opportunities to be art teachers on location. The students of the University of the Nations will have a chance to get a double certificate from the University of the Nations and the Florence Classical Arts Academy. In case the student desires to pursue studies with the Florence Classical Arts Academy further, this course will be already considered as the part of completed credits. The diploma of FCAA is approved by the Tuscany Region and is valid in Italy and EU countries.

Discipleship Training School ( DSP 211 )

This school is an intensive Christian discipleship course beginning with an 11 or 12-week lecture/teaching phase followed by an 8-12 week practical field assignment. It is a prerequisite for all other courses in the University of the Nations, and also serves to orient and prepare all new Youth With A Mission (YWAM) staff. The DTS is designed to encourage students in personal character development, cultivating their relationship with God and identifying their unique gifts and callings. Cross-cultural exposure and global awareness are special emphases throughout the course, preparing the students to evangelize and disciple current and future generations, answering the call to “Go into all the world and teach (make disciples of) all nations.” (Matthew 28:19). The curriculum is in the following six major categories: God’s nature and character; God’s intention for individuals, peoples and nations; seeing all of life from God’s perspective; redemption, sin, and the Cross; God’s family - the Church; God’s world - His call and commission; the ministries of YWAM. Focused DTS’s: In some locations the DTS is offered with a particular focus, such as the Crossroads DTS (YWAM CDTS), Operation Year DTS, University DTS, Sports DTS, Arts DTS, etc. Credit will be given for this course with satisfactory completion of DSP 212.

Discipleship Training School ( DSP 211 )

This school is an intensive Christian discipleship course beginning with an 11 or 12-week lecture/teaching phase followed by an 8-12 week practical field assignment. It is a prerequisite for all other courses in the University of the Nations, and also serves to orient and prepare all new Youth With A Mission (YWAM) staff. The DTS is designed to encourage students in personal character development, cultivating their relationship with God and identifying their unique gifts and callings. Cross-cultural exposure and global awareness are special emphases throughout the course, preparing the students to evangelize and disciple current and future generations, answering the call to “Go into all the world and teach (make disciples of) all nations.” (Matthew 28:19). The curriculum is in the following six major categories: God’s nature and character; God’s intention for individuals, peoples and nations; seeing all of life from God’s perspective; redemption, sin, and the Cross; God’s family - the Church; God’s world - His call and commission; the ministries of YWAM. Focused DTS’s: In some locations the DTS is offered with a particular focus, such as the Crossroads DTS (YWAM CDTS), Operation Year DTS, University DTS, Sports DTS, Arts DTS, etc. Credit will be given for this course with satisfactory completion of DSP 212.