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
| 9 |
C. Departmental and student seminars - mandatory courses
| 1
|
D1. Bioinformatics – choose 1 of 3 courses
D2. Statistics – choose 1 of 3 courses
D3. Tools – choose 1 of 5 courses
D4. Environmental Applications – choose 1 of 5 courses
| 11
|
| E. Electives | 7 |
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 all 9
credits from the core
courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-4028 | Prof. Arnon Karnieli | Remote sensing for agriculture, rangelands, and forestry | 3 |
| 001-2-5066 | Dr. Scott K. Hansen
| Introduction to scientific computing with Python | 3 |
| *Future Course* | Prof. Ilya Gelfand
| The water-food-energy nexus | 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
Students are required to choose 1 of 3 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2046 | Prof. Aaron Fait | Analysis of biological networks | 3 |
| 001-2-5041 | Dr. Menachem Sklarz | Practical bioinformatics for environmental studies | 3 |
| 372-2-5331 | Dr. Assaf Zaritsky | Data science in cell imaging | 3
|
D2. Statistics
Students are required to choose 1 of 3 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-3021 | Prof. Itamar Giladi | Biostatistics
| 3 |
| 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
|
D3. Tools
Students are required to choose 1 of 5 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2206 | Prof. Arnon Karnieli and Dr. Manuel Salvoldi | Earth observation space missions for agricultural monitoring (prerequisite: 001-2-4028) | 3 |
| 001-2-4024 | Prof. Arnon Karnieli and Dr. Natalya Panov | Satellite image processing (prerequisite: 001-2-4028) | 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 |
| 377-2-5211 | Prof. Yitzhak Yitzhaky | Selected topics in image processing | 3 |
D4. Environmental Applications
Students are required to choose 1 of 5 courses:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2039 | Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch and Prof. Jiri Simunek | 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:
Elective courses for students who are in their second year of studies with the approval of their supervisor and upon approval of the teaching committee.
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2081 | Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan
| UAVs for environmental and agriculture research | 2.5 |
| 001-2-2303 | Dr. Gilad Gabay
| Functional Genomic Approaches in Plant Breeding | 2 |
| 001-2-3047 | Prof. Merav Seifan
| Global changes and the biodiversity crisis
| 2 |
