MATH2322: Algebra 1 Honours: Groups, Rings and Advanced Linear Algebra

This is a tricky one... The assessment for this course is not concrete, the final exam can make up anywhere from 40-100% of your final grade depending on your marks for assignments and the midsemester exam. The scheme is explained well by the lecturer.
Weekly assignments of 3-4 questions taken from Artin.
Occasional quizzes in the lectures.

After feeling a little disenchanted with MATH2405 in semester 1, my expectations weren't great for another 2nd year maths course, but I loved Algebra I.
I certainly looked forward to the lectures and tutorials every week, and the material was fun to learn.
The course material is good, though the linear algebra section could probably be diminished to spend more time on ring theory.

We had Joan Licata and it was her first year taking the course. Great lecturer, very engaging and fun but also very comprehensive. Always happy to backtrack and go over things that may be causing any confusion, I recommend going to her office hours for any issues at all with the material.
Her husband Anthony Licata takes the optional lecture, he was pretty good but sometimes skipped around a bit, though this may just have been the nature of taking only one lecture a week.

Overall the best course that I've taken so far.

Yes, just a handycam recording of the lectures at about 3 fps... Audio and whiteboard.

Joan Licata for the normal lectures.
Anthony Licata for the 4th optional lecture.

We had a few past papers and 1 sample paper given to us on Wattle. I didn't look on the library website so there may or may not be more.

4.5 out of 5

Artin's Algebra is the recommended textbook. I went the first term without it but in hindsight I recommend getting it, since the course draws a lot and relies a lot on the text. I just printed a pdf copy at Officeworks for about $50.

3 normal lectures per week, 1 optional lecture that contains material for HPO, PhB and masters students. All 1 hour.
1 hour-long tutorial per week.

Semester 2 2013

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