Lectures	Sections in Text	Brief Description
1/4	Ch 7 - 9	Introduction, quotient rings and ideals
1/6	13.1	Prime and maximal ideals and quotients
1/7		No special day of classes
1/9	13.1	Characteristic, prime fields, finite extensions
1/11	13.1, 13.2	Finite extensions; simple extensions
1/13	13.2	Algebraic Extensions
1/16		No Class: Martin Luther King Day
1/18	13.2	Algebraic Extensions
1/19 (x-hour)	13.2	Algebraic Extensions
1/20	13.3	Compass and Straightedge constructions
1/23	13.4, 13.6	Splitting Fields, cyclotomic polynomials
1/25	13.4, 13.6	Algebraic Closures and uniqueness
1/27	13.4. 13.6	Algebraic Closures and uniqueness
1/30	13.5	Separable and Inseparable Extensions
2/1	13.5	Automorphism groups of fields
2/1		Midterm Exam distributed (due 2/8)
2/3	14.1	Fixed fields and automorphism groups
2/6	14.1	Fixed fields and automorphism groups
2/8	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/9 (x-hour)	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/10	14.2	Carnival Holiday
2/13	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/15	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/17	14.2	Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
2/20	14.3, 14.4	Finite Fields, Composite Extensions
2/22	14.4	Composite and Simple extensions
2/24	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
3/6	14.6	Galois groups of polynomials: degrees 2, 3, 4
3/8	14.8	Wrap it up