| Week | Starting | Topic | Reading |
| 1 | January 14 | Introduction | USP Chapter 1 SGG Chapter 1 (lightly) |
| Programs and Processes | USP Chapter 2 | ||
| 2 | January 21 | Process Management) | SGG 3.1, 3.2 |
| CPU Scheduling) | SGG 5.1 - 5.3 | ||
| 3 | January 28 | CPU Scheduling Examples | SGG 5.6, web notes |
| CPU Scheduling Simulator | web notes | ||
| Processes in UNIX | USP Chapter 3 | ||
| 4 | February 4 | UNIX I/O | USP Chapter 4 |
| UNIX Files and Directories | USP Chapter 5 | ||
| UNIX Special Files | USP 6.1 - 6.4 | ||
| 5 | February 11 | The Token Ring | USP 7.1 - 7.3 |
| Threads | USP 12.1, 12.2, SGG Chapter 4 | ||
| 6 | February 18 | Process Synchronization | SGG Chapter 6 |
| 7 | February 25 | Process Synchronization (continued) | |
| Midterm Exam 1 | |||
| 8 | March 3 | Semaphore Implementation | web notes |
| POSIX mutex locks | USP 13.1, 13.2 | ||
| POSIX unnamed semaphores | USP 14.1 - 14.4 | ||
| 9 | March 10 | Monitors | SGG 6.7 |
| Signals | USP 81. - 8.6, 9.4 | ||
| Spring Break | |||
| 10 | March 24 | Network Communication | USP Chapter 18 |
| 10 | March 31 | Disk Head Scheduling | SGG 12.1 - 12.4 |
| 12 | April 7 | Memory | SGG Chapter 8 |
| 13 | April 14 | Midterm Exam 2 | |
| 14 | April 21 | Virtual Memory | SGG 9.1 - 9.4 |
| 15 | April 28 | Review | |