Academic Program – Irrigation and the Plant Environment
The M.Sc. program is a two-year program.
- The chairperson of the teaching committee is: Prof. Ilya Gelfand.
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
| 15 |
C. Departmental and student seminars -- Mandatory Courses
| 1
|
| D1. Elective Courses within the track of study D2. Elective courses for students who are in their second year of studies with the approval of their supervisor.
| 12
|
Thesis Writing
| 12 |
Total
| 42 |
A. Mandatory Course:
| 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 15 credits from the course courses
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2005 | Prof. Yonathan Ephrath& Prof. Moshe Sagi | Plant Physiology under Stress
| 2 |
| 001-2-2006 | Prof. Moshe Silberbush
| Mechanistic Approach to Plant Nutrition
| 2 |
| 001-2-2035 | Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch | Crop Irrigation Regimes
| 3 |
| 001-2-2038 | Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch | Soil Physics
| 3 |
| 001-2-2203 | Dr. Gilboa Arye | Adsorption and Reactivity of Chemicals in Soils
| 3 |
| 001-2-2204 | Dr. Gilboa Arye | Agricultural and Environmental Aspects in Soil Sciences
| 3 |
| 001-2-5030 | Prof. Nurit Agam | Hydrometeorology
| 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
|
D1. Elective Courses within the track of study:
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-0022 | Dr. Anat Bernstein
| Stable Isotope Application in Contaminant Hydrology | 2 |
| 001-2-1103 | Prof. Hadas Hawlena
| Introduction to Dryland Ecology | 4 |
| 001-2-1200 | Prof. Simon Barak & Dr. Buzi Raviv
| BGU Radio Academy – Podcast production
course | 2 |
| 001-2-2039 | Prof. Jirka Simunek (Coordinated by Dr. Naftali Lazarovitch) | Advanced Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Porous Media | 2 |
| 001-2-2043 | Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch | Plant Stress Indications: Methods and Instrumentation
| 2 |
| 001-2-2059 | Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch | Carbon Metabolism and Photosynthesis in a Changing Environment
| 2 |
| 001-2-2067 | Prof. Jhonathan Ephrath | Understanding and Modeling of Agricultural Systems
| 2 |
| 001-2-2075 | Prof. Ilya Gelfand
| Terrestrial Biogeochemsitry | 3 |
| 001-2-2077 | Prof. Aaron Fait
| Grape and Wine Science | 2.5 |
| 001-2-2205 | Dr. Ido Regev | Modeling in the Earth and Plant Sciences
| 3 |
| 001-2-2301 | Prof. Nurit Agam | Guided Reading Course on Calculating the Aridity Index from Meteorological Time Series | 2 |
| 001-2-2302 | Prof. Ilya Gelfand | Guided Reading on Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry
| 2 |
| 001-2-3036 | Prof. Bertrand Boeken | Agroecology | 2.5 |
| 001-2-3047 | Prof. Merav Seifan
| Global Changes and the biodiversity crisis
| 2 |
| 001-2-3086 | Prof. Hadas Hawlena
| Microbial Ecology from the Ecologist Point of View | 3 |
| 001-2-4028 | Prof. Arnon Karnieli | Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Rangelands, and Forestry (NO PRE-REQUISITES NEEDED) | 3 |
| 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 |
| 001-2-5012 | Prof. Zeev Ronen | Biodegradation Process of Synthetic Organic Compound in Water Soil
| 2 |
| 001-2-5026 | Prof. Ali Nejidat | Nitrogen Transformations and Environmental Quality | 2 |
| 001-2-5029 | Prof. Noam Weisbrod | Rural Water Development | 2 |
| 001-2-5041 | Dr. Menachem Sklartz | Practical Bioinformatics for Environmental Studies | 3 |
001-2-5055
Course 5074 will replace course 5055 starting Nov 3, 2024
| Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch & Prof. Ofer Dahan | Operation and Analysis of Environmental Monitoring Systems | 1 |
| 001-2-5074 | Dr. Elad Levintal
| Envirotech - do it yourself sensors for environmental research | 3 |
| 001-2-6002 | Dr. Aviva Peeters | Theory and Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
| 3
|
D2. Elective courses for students who are in their second year of studies with the approval of their supervisor
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-2054 | Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch | Guided Reading on Topics in the Ecophysiology of Desert Plants
| 2 |
| 001-2-2060 | Dr. Nina Kamennaya and guest lecturers | History of the landuse, agriculture and domestication | 2 |
| 001-2-2081 | Dr. Tarin Paz-Kagan and Dr. Tamir Caras | UAVs for environmental and agriculture research | 3 |
| 001-2-2173 | Prof. Noemi Tel-Zur | Guided Reading on Plant Breeding and Cytogenetics
| 2 |
| 001-2-3021 | Prof. Itamar Giladi
| Biostatistics | 3 |
