| Week | Monday | Tuesday Lab | Wednesday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (Jan 5-9) | Introduction, Preliminaries (Chapter 0) | Lab 0 (Review) | Preliminaries, Introduction to Groups (Chapter 2) | Introduction to Groups, Dihedral Group (Chapter 1) |
| 2 (Jan 12-16) | Subgroups (Chapter 3) | Lab 1 | Subgroups (Chapter 3) | Cyclic Groups (Chapter 4) |
| 3 (Jan 19-23) | Holiday | Lab 2 | Cyclic Groups (Chapter 4) | Cyclic Groups (Chapter 4) |
| 4 (Jan 26-30) | Permutation Groups (Chapter 5) | Lab 3 | Permutation Groups (Chapter 5) | Isomorphisms (Chapter 6) |
| 5 (Feb 2-6) | Review | Test 1 | Isomorphisms (Chapter 6) | Class Cancelled |
| 6 (Feb 9-13) | Cosets (Chapter 7) | Lab 5 | Cosets | External Direct Product (Chapter 8) |
| 7 (Feb 16-20) | External Direct Product, Introduction to Cryptography | Lab 6 | Normal Subgroup and Factor Groups (Chapter 9) | Factor Groups, Internal Direct Product (Chapter 9) |
| 8 (Feb 23-27) | Homomorphisms (Chapter 10) | Lab 7 | Homomorphisms (Chapter 10), Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups (Chapter 11) | More on Abelian Groups (Chapter 11), Introduction to Rings (Chapter 12) |
| 9 (Mar 1-5) | Review | Test 2 | Rings (Chapter 12) | Integral Domains, Fields, Characteristic (Chapter 13) |
| 10 (Mar 8-12) | Characteristic, Ring Homomorphisms (Chapter 15) | Lab 8 | Ring Homomorphisms, Division Algorithm for Polynomial Rings (Chapter 16) | Review |
| 11 (Mar 15) | Review | no class | Final Exam | no class |