my fantastic, as in fantasy-like university curriculum

My dream university curriculum:

Elaborated at: http://ed-leading-edge.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-ideal-fantastic-university-education.html

A fantasy, which I will develop in fullness another time. But meantime:

It could be something within USP.

Uber-selective. Looking for students who can move across things with equal ease.

First year will probably be... doing exposures and fundamentals across the major faculties - physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, history, literature, philosophy, writing... and maybe into second year. Depending on the students, they then start to explore and do research modules on their own, working closely with professors, maybe more than 1, esp if their research module is across different faculties. Mashups are encouraged!

So this goes on for years 2 and 3s. Their research projects ought to be massive, consolidating the connections between different areas of knowledge, and go from 8MCs to say, 16MCs. So every sem they might just do 2 or 3 research projects, but their research projects would be massive...

And then in their final year, they do a uber-thesis, a consolidation of all they have learnt during the years in university.

While majors will not exist, there will still exist clusters - some modules students could do in a certain track in order to attain a body of knowledge they can apply. While they might sit in regular lectures, attend laboratory sessions, they will not sit for their final exams, rather, they will just keep doing research projects.

This idea will definitely have limitations for the science, engineering-based people. But then, this concept of education would not apply to the hardcore, focused researchers anyway...