Question

When I took the second graduate algebra course we spent the first half on noncommutative ring theory. We covered topics like Jacobson radicals, artinian/noetherian rings, semi-simple algebras. We used Herstein and Jacobson's algebra books. The second half was all the ground work for complex representations of finite groups. No text was suggested, but it was a bit like "Linear Representations of Finite Groups" by Serre.