- The M.Sc.
program is a two-year program.
- The chairperson of the teaching
committee is: Prof. Roy Bernstein.
- Students are required to complete the
following courses during the two-year program:
Subject | Credits |
Courses
within the track of study A.
Mandatory Course (2 credit
points) B.
Core courses (10 credit points) C.
Departmental and student seminars
(1 credit point) D.
Mandatory Core Courses Within the Track of Study (7 credit points) E.
Elective courses (8 credit points) F.
General courses (2 credit points) | 30 |
Thesis
Writing | 12 |
Total | 42 |
A. Mandatory
Course:
Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-0153 | Dr. Scott Hansen and Dr. Christopher J. Arnush | Writing a Scientific Paper | 2 |
B. Core Courses:
Students are required to complete all courses
from the list below*.
Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-0003 | Prof. Oded Nir | Chemistry
of Water | 3 |
001-2-0016 | Prof. Roy Bernstein | Physicochemical
Technologies for Water Treatment | 2 |
001-2-5024 | Prof. Ofer Dahan | Groundwater Hydrology | 2 |
001-2-5059 | Prof. Osnat Gillor | Water Microbiology+ | 3 |
+Nonmicrobiologists
may take the course:
Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-5159 | Prof. Osnat Gillor | Introduction
to Microbiologists
| 1 |
* Students who
previously completed courses that were similar/equivalent to certain courses
listed above are required to complete the remainder of the required core course
credits by enrolling in courses either from the list of Mandatory Core Courses
(C) or from the list of Elective Courses (D) or from a combination of both
(with the approval of the student's supervisor and the chairperson of the
teaching committee).
C. Seminars and
Thesis Writing -- Mandatory Courses:
Students are required to attend 4 Departmental
Seminars (one seminar per semester).
Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-5555 | 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 |
001-2-9995 | Please check the university course file
| Student Seminar (first
year)
| 0.5 |
001-2-9996 | 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. Mandatory Core Courses Within the Track of
Study:
Students
are required to complete at least 7 credits*.
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-0004 | Prof. Noam Weisbrod | Vadose
Zone Hydrology | 2.5 |
001-2-5004 | Dr. Elad Levintal | Field Methods in Hydrology | 3 |
001-2-5005 | Prof. Amit Gross, Prof. Zeev Ronen | Laboratory Methods for Environmental Studies | 3 |
001-2-5010 | Prof. Zeev Ronen | Groundwater Microbiology | 2 |
001-2-5060 | Prof. Moshe Herzberg | Biological Processes in Wastewater Treatment | 2 |
001-2-5067 | Dr. Scott K. Hansen | Introduction to Contaminant Hydrology | 3 |
* Mandatory Core
Courses can be also selected as Elective Courses (on
top of the required 7 credits).
E.
Elective Courses:
This
is a partial list. The student is allowed to select other courses that are
related to the area of
his/her research with the approval of the supervisor.
Students
are required to complete at least 8 credits.
Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
001-2-0012 | Prof. Daniel Ronen | Selected Issues Related to Groundwater Hydrology:
Quality & Quantity | 2 |
001-2-0015 | Prof. Roy Bernstein | Membrane Preparation and Characterization | 3 |
001-2-0017 | Prof. Roni Kasher | Polymer Science and Polymeric Membranes | 2 |
001-2-0021 | Dr. Christopher Arnush | Biomimetic Innovation Approaches | 2 |
001-2-0022 | Dr. Anat Bernstein | Stable Isotope Application in Contaminant Hydrology | 2 |
001-2-0027 | Prof. Shai Arnon | Flow and water quality in streams: Theory and practice
| 2 |
001-2-0030 | Dr. Anat Bernstein and Prof. Amit Gross | Lab Methods in Soil Science | 3 |
001-2-2015 | Prof. Dina Zilberg and Prof. Amit Gross | Introduction to Desert
Aquaculture | 3 |
001-2-2039 | Prof. Van Genuchten Martinus Theodorus | Advanced Modeling of Water
Flow and Contaminant Transport in Porous Media | 2 |
001-2-3001 | Prof. Ariel Novoplansky | Evolutionary
Ecology of Phenotypic Plasticity
(prerequisite: Introduction to Ecology or Introduction to
Biology or equivalent courses, as determined by the chairperson) | 3 |
001-2-3021 | Prof. Itamar Giladi | Biostatistics | 3 |
001-2-4010 | Prof. Georgy Burde | Topics in Environmental Fluid Mechanics – A | 3 |
001-2-4028 | Prof.
Arnon Karnieli | Remote
Sensing for Agriculture, Rangelands, and Forestry )no
prerequisites required( | 3 |
001-2-4036 | Prof. Georgy Burde | Topics in Environmental Fluid Mechanics – B | 3 |
001-2-4047 | Prof. Iris Visoli-Fisher | Surface Science for the Environment
| 3 |
001-2-4049 | Dr. Arik Yochelis | Nonlinear Dynamical Aspects of
Electrochemical Systems | 3 |
001-2-5026 | Prof.
Ali Nejidat | Nitrogen Transformations and Environmental Quality | 2 |
001-2-5028 | Prof.
Moshe Herzberg | Microbial Biofilms in Water and Wastewater Treatment
Processes (prerequisite:
Introduction to Microbiology) | 2 |
001-2-5029 | Prof. Noam Weisbrod | Rural Water Development | 2 |
001-2-5030 | Prof.
Nurit Agam | Hydrometeorology | 3 |
| 001-2-5034 | Prof. Yoram Oren | Environmental Oriented Electrochemistry | 2 |
| 001-2-5037 | Dr. Michal Sela-Adler
| Organic Micropollutant Identification and Quantification in the Lab
| 3 |
001-2-5038 | Prof.
Amit Gross | Water
Sanitation | 3 |
001-2-5041 | Dr. Menachem Sklartz | Practical Bioinformatics for Environmental
Studies - A and B (a two-semester course) | 3 |
001-2-5044 | Prof. Shai Arnon | Biogeochemical Processes in Surface Water Systems | 3 |
001-2-5055 | Prof.
Naftali Lazarovitch, Prof. Ofer Dahan | Operation
and Analysis of Environmental Monitoring Systems | 1 |
001-2-5062 | Prof.
Edo Bar-Zeev | Introduction to Biofilms
| 3
|
001-2-5063 | Prof.
Edo Bar-Zeev | Microbial
Sociology: From a Single Bacterium to Biofilm and Biofouling | 3 |
001-2-5065 | Prof. Shai Arnon | Transport Processes in Streams: Theory and Practice | 2
|
001-2-5066 | Dr. Scott K. Hansen | Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python | 3 |
001-2-5068 | Prof. Oded Nir | Aqueous Chemistry Modeling with PHREEQC | 2 |
| 001-2-5069 | Prof. Amit Gross | Water & the Environment: Current Challenges and Solutions | 3
|
001-2-5070 | Dr. Scott K. Hansen | Practical Data Science and Machine Learning | 3 |
| 001-2-5074 | Dr. Elad Levintal
| Envirotech - do it yourself sensors for environmental research | 3 |
001-2-5100 | Dr. Genadi Carmi | Introduction to Surface Hydrology | 2 |
001-2-5129 | Prof. Noam Weisbrod | Rural Water Development (field trip) – Prerequisite: Course
# 001-2-5029 | 2 |
001-2-6002 | Dr. Aviva Peeters | Theory and Applications of Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) (limited to 15 students) | 3 |
F. General
Course:
Students
are required to complete 2-3 credits.
Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-1200 | Prof. Simon Barak & Dr. Buzi Raviv
| BGU Radio Academy – Podcast production
course | 2 |
001-2-4029 | Prof. Yosef Ashkenazi | Introduction to Statistics and Probability | 3 |
