Lectures	Sections in Text	Brief Description
1/5		Introduction, quotient rings and ideals
1/7	7.5, 15.4	Localization and field of fractions
1/9	13.1	Localization, characteristic, prime fields
1/10		No special day of classes
1/12	13.1, 13.2	Finite extensions; simple extensions
1/14	13.2	Algebraic Extensions
1/16	13.2	Algebraic Extensions
1/19		No Class: Martin Luther King Day
1/21	13.2	Algebraic Extensions
1/22 (x-hour)	13.2, 13.3	Compass and Straightedge constructions
1/23	13.4, 13.6	Splitting Fields, cyclotomic polynomials
1/26	13.4, 13.6	Algebraic Closures and uniqueness
1/28	13.4. 13.6	Algebraic Closures and uniqueness
1/30	13.5	Separable and Inseparable Extensions
2/2	13.5	Automorphism groups of fields
2/4		Approximate Date of Midterm Exam
2/4	14.1	Fixed fields and automorphism groups
2/6	14.1	Fixed fields and automorphism groups
2/9	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/11	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/12 (x-hour)	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/16	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/18	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/20	14.3, 14.4	Finite Fields, Composite Extensions
2/23	14.4	Composite and Simple extensions
2/25	14.5	Cyclotomic and abelian extensions
2/27	14.5	Finite abelian groups are galois groups
3/1	14.6	Galois groups of polynomials
3/3	14.7	Galois groups of polynomials
3/5	14.6	Galois groups of polynomials: degrees 2, 3, 4
3/8	14.8	Wrap it up