I'm more familiar with St. John's College, as I dreamed of attending had not the cost been so prohibitively high. http://www.sjca.edu/ http://www.sjca.edu/ But

I'm more familiar with St. John's College, as I dreamed of attending had not the cost been so prohibitively high. http://www.sjca.edu/ http://www.sjca.edu/ But the one-track curriculum is based off the trivium and quadrivium of medieval education, where you don't have electives but regardless, you get a well-rounded education because they're preparing you to think and inquire. So every student studies Greek, Latin, French, Western classical music, mathematics from the source (like Euclid's Elements and Newton's Principia), physics from the source, chemistry, history, etc. No modern textbooks rehashing information, so theoretically, no passive learning. So this curriculum isn't really a straitjacket. The one downside is that you're not getting a very multicultural or contemporary view, given that you're reading the Western canon largely pre-World War II. But it's not such a big problem if you again realize that the idea with this education is that you're being trained not in subjects but in the ability to go out and find what you don't know in the classroom on your own and to discuss these new ideas with other people.