| Week | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (Jan 3-7) | No class | Introduction (1) | Preliminaries (0), Groups (2) |
| 2 (Jan 10-14) | Groups (2), Subgroups (3) | Subgroups (3) | Cyclic Groups (4) |
| 3 (Jan 17-21) | Cyclic Groups (4) | Permutations (5) | Permutation Groups (5) |
| 4 (Jan 24-28) | Isomorphisms (6) | Isomorphisms (6) | Student Activity-1 |
| 5 (Jan 31-Feb 4) | Cosets (7) | Cosets (7) | Test 1 |
| 6 (Feb 7-11) | no class | External Direct Product (8) | External Direct Product, Introduction to Cryptography (8) |
| 7 (Feb 14-18) | Normal Subgroups (9-to Theorem 9.1) | Factor Groups (9-to Example 13) | Factor Groups (9), Introduction to Homomorphisms (10) |
| 8 (Feb 21-25) | No class | Properties of Homomorphisms (10) | First Isomorphism Theorem (10), Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups (11), Introduction to Rings (12) |
| 9 (Feb 28-March 4) | Properties of Rings (12), Introduction to Integral Domains (13) | Fields, Characteristic (13), Ideals (14) | Ideals and Factor Rings (14) |
| 10 (March 7-11) | Prime and Maximal Ideals (14) | Ring Homomorphisms (15) | Test 2 |
| 11 (March 14-15) | Review | no class | Final Exam |