A common goal for music theory faculty in recent years has been to critically examine their institution's undergraduate curriculum and determine ways it can be restructured to better serve the needs of their current student body. Doing so requires asking the questions: How can we create a flexible undergraduate core curriculum that centers student academic interest and professional and artistic goals that retains scaffolding and relevance for students' future success? How can we accomplish this goal within the limits of current faculty teaching loads? Our poster presents one answer to these questions through a student-centered curriculum overhaul that we launched in Fall 2024.

Our solution to the curricular issues is built from a number of pedagogical sources including Jennifer Snodgrass (2020), Justin London (2020), and Katrina Roush (2024). Our approach derives from five main goals:

• Modernizing outcomes: Including more 21st-Century musicianship skills in musical repertoire, applied technology, job readiness, and entrepreneurship;
• Creating applied learning opportunities: Guiding students to build portfolios of projects that demonstrate skills to potential employers and clients;
• Centering equity and inclusion: De-centering European hegemonic music to be more inclusive of musicians of other backgrounds and modes of musical expression;
• Increasing student agency: Allow students to select the courses that best reflect their interests and career goals; and,
• Increasing student retention and persistence: Limit long prerequisite sequences.