The Seven Liberal Arts consisted of two divisions: the trivium, which was comprised ofgrammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (logic); and the quadrivium, which consisted of arith-metic, geometry, astronomy, and music.... In the modern period the trivium was furtherdivided to include literature and history as distinct subjects; and the quadrivium, to in-clude algebra, trigonometry, geography, botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry... theSeven Liberal Arts are still the nucleus of the subject curriculum, as a casual survey of re-quired courses will reveal.43