Abstract Algebra (third edition) Dummit and Foote
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(Available online or at Wheelock Books)

Note: The x-hours are required for all graduate students enrolled in the course.

There will be a midterm and a final examination. The midterm will probably be a take-home exam, but may also have an in-class component; the final will be a scheduled three-hour final.

• Written homework will be assigned (potentially) daily and will be collected weekly, due at the beginning of Tuesday's class.
• Homework assigned on M,W,F of one week is due on Tuesday of the following week.
• All homework assignments will be posted on the course assignment's web page.
• Late homework will not be accepted in the absence of divine intervention or matters of similar weight.
• Unexcused late and missing papers count zero.
• Homework is to be written neatly using one side of 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper. You may feel free to you recycled printer paper to achieve this goal in an environmentally friendly manner.
• Do not use paper from a spiral notebook unless you can tear off the ragged edge.
• All papers are to be stapled.
• Use English. If you can't read your solutions aloud as fluently as if you were reading your textbook, try using nouns and verbs in your write ups!
• Consult the honor principle (below) as it applies to this course.

The course grade will be based upon the scores on the midterm exam, homework, and the final exam as follows:

On Homework: Collaboration is permitted and encouraged, but no copying . What a student turns in as a homework solution is to be his or her own understanding of how to do the problems. Students must state what sources they have consulted, with whom they have collaborated, and from whom they have received help. The solutions you submit must be written by you alone. Any copying (electronic or otherwise) of another person's solutions, in whole or in part, is a violation of the Honor Code.

Moreover, if in working with someone they have provided you with an important idea or approach, they should be explicitly given credit in your writeup. Hints I give in office hours need not be cited. Note: It is not sufficient to annotate your paper with a phrase like ``I worked with Joe on all the problems.'' Individual ideas are to be credited at each instance; they represent intellectual property.

On Exams: Students may not receive assistance of any kind from any source (living, published, electronic, etc), except the professor, and may not give assistance to anyone. Matters of clarification are to be left to the professor.

If you have any questions as to whether some action would be acceptable under the Academic Honor Code, please speak to me, and I will be glad to help clarify things. It is always easier to ask beforehand.

Students with disabilities enrolled in this course and who may need disability-related classroom accommodations are encouraged to make an appointment to see me before the end of the second week of the term. All discussions will remain confidential, although the Student Accessibility Services office may be consulted to discuss appropriate implementation of any accommodation requested.


T. R. Shemanske
Last updated August 02, 2011 13:48:38 EDT