The chairperson of the teaching committee is: Dr. Gilboa Arye.
Irrigation and Plant Environment Academic Program
The M.Sc. program is a two-year program.
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 |
| Course # | Lecturer | Subject | Credits |
| 001-2-0153 | Dr. Scott Hansen and Dr. Christopher J. Arnusch | Writing a Scientific Paper | 2 |
Students are required to take 15 credits from the core 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch and Prof. Jirka Šimůnek | Advanced Modeling of Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Porous Media | 2 | |
| Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch | Plant Stress Indications: Methods and Instrumentation | 2 | |
| Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch | Carbon Metabolism and Photosynthesis in a Changing Environment | 2 | |
| Prof. Jhonathan Ephrath | Understanding and Modeling of Agricultural Systems | 2 | |
| Prof. Ilya Gelfand | Terrestrial Biogeochemsitry | 3 | |
| Prof. Aaron Fait | Grape and Wine Science | 2.5 | |
| Prof. Ido Regev | Modeling in the Earth and Plant Science | 3 | |
| Prof. Nurit Agam | Guided Reading Course on Calculating the Aridity Index from Meteorological Time Series | 2 | |
| Prof. Ilya Gelfand | Guided Reading on Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry | 2 | |
001-2-3036 | Prof. Bertrand Boeken | Agroecology | 2.5 |
| Prof. Merav Seifan | Global Changes and the biodiversity crisis | 2 | |
| Prof. Hadas Hawlena | Microbial Ecology from the Ecologist Point of View | 3 | |
| Prof. Arnon Karnieli | Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Rangelands, and Forestry (NO PRE-REQUISITES NEEDED) | 3 | |
| Dr. Elad Levintal and Tuvia Turkeltaub | Field Methods in Hydrology | 3 | |
| Prof. Amit Gross, Prof. Zeev Ronen | Laboratory Methods for Environmental Studies | 3 | |
| Prof. Zeev Ronen | Biodegradation Process of Synthetic Organic Compound in Water Soil | 2 | |
| Prof. Ali Nejidat | Nitrogen Transformations and Environmental Quality | 2 | |
| 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 |
| Dr. Elad Levintal | Envirotech - do it yourself sensors for environmental research | 3 | |
001-2-5075 Fall 001-2-5076 Spring | Dr. Elad Levintal | Do-it-yourself sensors for environmental research - advanced course | 3 |
| Dr. Aviva Peeters | Theory and Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | 3 |
| 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 |
| 001-2-3079 | Prof. Ariel Novoplansky | Scientific Presentation | 2 |
