The M.Sc. program is a two-year program.
The chairperson of the teaching committee is: Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan.
Students are required to complete the following courses during the two-year program:
| Subject | Credits |
| A. Mandatory course: Writing a Scientific Paper | 2
|
| B. Core courses within the track of study | 6 |
| C. Departmental and student seminars - mandatory courses | 1 |
D1. Bioinformatics - choose 1 of 4 courses
| 3 |
| D2. Statistics – choose 1 of 4 courses | 3 |
| D3. Geoinformatics – choose 2 of 6 courses | 6 |
| D4. Environmental Applications – choose 2 of 4 courses | 4
|
| E. Electives | 5
|
| Thesis Writing | 12 |
| Total | 42
|
A. Mandatory course:
This course should be taken in the 3rd or 4th semester of your degree.
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-0153 | Dr. Scott Hansen and Dr. Christopher J. Arnusch | Writing a Scientific Paper | 2 |
B. Core Courses within the track of study:
Students are required to take 6 credits from the core courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-5066 | Dr. Scott K. Hansen | Introduction to scientific computing with Python | 3 |
| 001-2-4065 | Dr. Victor Yashunsky | Data-Based Research with Python | 3 |
| 001-2-3021 | Prof. Itamar Giladi | Biostatistics | 3 |
C. Seminars and Thesis Writing - Mandatory Courses
Students are required to attend 4 Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2222 | Please check the university course file | Departmental Seminar | 0 |
Students are required to present two seminars (one student seminar per year).
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2666 | Please check the university course file | Student Seminar (first year) | 0.5 |
| 001-2-2667 | | Student Seminar (second year) | 0.5 |
In the third and fourth semesters, students must register for Thesis Writing.
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-9991 | | Thesis Writing A | 6 |
| 002-2-9992 | | Thesis Writing B | 6 |
Students who have completed the above Thesis Writing courses and who continue their studies for a fifth semester must register for the following course:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-1000 | | Thesis Writing – Continuation | 0 |
D. Elective Courses within the track of study:
D1. Bioinformatics and Laboratory methods
Students are required to choose 1 of 4 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2046 | Prof. Aaron Fait | Analysis of biological networks | 3 |
| 001-2-4063 | Dr. Victor Yishonsky | Hands-on Image and Video Analysis without Coding: From Acquisition
to Quantification | 3 |
| 001-2-5004 | Dr. Elad Levintal and Dr. Tuvia Turkeltaub | Field Methods in Hydrology | 3 |
D2. Statistics and data science
Students are required to choose 1 of 3 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-4029 | Prof. Yosef Ashkenazy | Introduction to statistics and probability using Python | 3 |
| 001-2-4054 | Prof. Golan Bel | Statistical analysis (prerequisite: basic statistics) | 3 |
| 001-2-5074 | Dr. Elad Levintal | Envirotech - do it yourself sensors for environmental research | 3 |
D3. Remote sensing and geoinformatics
Students are required to choose 2 of 6 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-2081
| Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan and Dr. Tamir Caras
| UAVs for environmental and agriculture research
| 3
|
| 001-2-4024 | Prof. Arnon Karnieli and Dr. Natalya Panov
| Satellite Image Processing | 3 |
| 001-2-5070 | Dr. Scott K. Hansen | Practical data science and machine learning | 3 |
| 001-2-6002 | Dr. Aviva Peeters | Theory and applications of geographic information systems | 3 |
| 001-2-9301 | Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan | Introduction to Image Processing and Computer Vision | 3 |
| 377-2-5211 | Prof. Yitzhak Yitzhaky | Selected topics in image processing | 3 |
D4. Environmental Applications
Students are required to choose 2 of 3 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2039 | Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch and Prof. Jirka Šimůnek | Advanced modeling of water flow and contaminant transport in porous media (prerequisite: 001-2-2038) | 2 |
| 001-2-2043 | Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch | Plant stress indicators: Methods and instrumentation | 2 |
| 001-2-3094 | Prof. Uri Roll | Macro ecology | 2 |
E. Electives:
Students are required to choose 5 points
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-1103 | Prof. Hadas Hawlena | Introduction to Dryland Ecology | 4 |
| 001-2-2035 | Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch | Crop Irrigation Regimes | 3 |
| 001-2-2038 | Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch | Soil Physics
| 3 |
| 001-2-2066 | Prof. Aaron Fait
| Metabolomics Laboratory | 2 |
| 001-2-2067 | Prof. Jhonathan Ephrath | Understanding and Modeling of Agricultural Systems - Guided reading | 2 |
| 001-2-2205 | Prof. Ido Regev | Modeling in the Earth Sciences | 3 |
| 001-2-2303 | Dr. Gilad Gabai | Functional Genomic Approaches in Plant Breeding | 2 |
| 001-2-3047 | Prof. Merav Seifan | Global changes and the biodiversity crisis | 2 |
