Roadmap to the Renormalization Group Approach

I am an undergrad interested in HEP-Th. I have studied canonical quantization, and path integral approach for quantizing fields, and the EM field quantization, classical yang-mills theory. I want to learn RG, especially for its utility in HEP. What are the topics that I should learn to get to it, and could you suggest parts of a reference. I know that Peskin and Schroeder is the canonical reference, but I don't know where to start and what is necessary. There seems to be a lot of chapters before I can start RG: radiative corrections (chapter 6 and 7?), systematics (chpt 10), symmetry (11).

How is it organized and what should I read?

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If you just wish to understand the concept of Wilsonian RG in field theory then Mehran Kardar's Vol2: Statistical physics of fields might be a good resource. The easiest computation is the renormalization (scale dependence) of the quartic coupling in the $\phi^4$ theory. Wilsonian RG is slightly different from what is called "renormalization" and is common in HEP (at least in older textbooks). I am not aware of a good pedagogical reference relating the two perspectives.