The Collège had an impressive and rigorous curriculum, which included the university arts course (the so-called trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), which was taught as a preparation for degrees in the higher faculties of theology, law, and medicine. This curriculum had been codified and published by the Jesuits in 1599, in its Ratio studiorum: it integrated what are now known as the humanities (classical literature, history, drama, and so forth) with scholastic philosophy and theology.
