Textbook:
| Lectures (approx) | Sections (from Hatcher's book) |
| Lecture 1&2 | Informal definition of cohomology, examples |
| Lectures 3&4 | Hom( ,G), exactness, Ext |
| Lecture 5 | Universal Coefficient Theorem |
| Week 3 | Quiz I |
| | Properties of cohomology; homotopy invariance, sequences of pairs and triples |
| Week 4-5 | § 3.2 Cup products, properties, examples
Quiz II |
| Week 6-7 | § 3.3 Homological manifolds, orientations, cap products Poincare duality Quiz III |
| Weeks 8-9 | Student presentations Quiz IV |
| Week 10 | § 3.3 (continued) Other forms of duality |