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DESERT STUDIES

TIME TABLE FOR THE FALL SEMESTER (A)- ACADEMIC YEAR 2018/2019

Offered in the Fall semester:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-7006 Dr. Shai Arnon Summarizing, Writing and Presenting Scientific Data 2 Tue 10:15-12:00 Sede Boqer Water

Inst.Seminar Room

Exam

orOffered in the Spring semester:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-0153Dr. Chris Arnusch and Prof. Jack Gilron

Writing a Scientific Paper 2 Mon 11:15-13:00 Sede Boqer School 1 Final Term Paper

470-2-0100 The Care and Use of Animals in Research - MANDATORY for Students Who Work with Animals

900-5-5001 Educational Software on Getting to Know the Law for the Prevention of Sexual Harassment - MANDATORY for all students. The course is in Hebrew http://moodle2.bgu.ac.il/?lang=en).https://bgu4u.bgu.ac.il/pls/scwp/!app.gate?app=csh and English https://bgu4u.bgu.ac.il/pls/scwp/!app.gate?app=csh&lang=en in the moodle system.

Students who began their studies on semester 2018/2 or 2019/1 are required to complete one of the courses from the list below during in their first or second semester of studies:

900-5-2002 Training in Chemical & Biological Safety - MANDATORY for Students Who Work in Chemical and Biological Labs (Students should take the course every year. Registration for the course is in the first and third semesters. The course is in Hebrew https://moodle2.bgu.ac.il/moodle/ and English in the moodle system http://moodle2.bgu.ac.il/?lang=en).

AGRICULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGYA. Core Courses:Seven core courses selected from all core courses:

Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-2017 Prof. Simon Barak Plant Perception, Transduction and Response to Environmental Signals (limited to 10 students)

2 Thu 10:15-12:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Oral Presentation

001-2-2036Prof. Gideon Grafi Molecular Biology and Epigenetics

2 Thu 08:30-10:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

001-2-2041 Dr. Noemi Tel-Zur Plant Reproduction 2 Tue 11:15-13:00 Sede Boqer Biology 136 Exam

001-2-2055 Dr. Yaron Sitrit Genetic and Physiological Regulation of Fruit Ripening

2 Mon 11:15-13:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

001-2-2203 Dr. Gilboa Arye Adsorption and Reactivity of Chemicals in Soils 3 Mon 15:15-18:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

B.Seminars and Thesis Writing -- Mandatory Courses:Students are required to attend Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room001-2-2222 Departmental Seminar A (first year)001-2-2224 Departmental Seminar B (first year)001-2-2223 Departmental Seminar A (second year)001-2-2225 Departmental Seminar B (second year)

001-2-9991 -- Thesis Writing A 6

001-2-9992 -- 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 course.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits

001-2-1000 -- Thesis Writing - Continuation 0

0 Wed Sede Boqer11:30-12:30Old Admin. Build.

Seminar Room

Dr. Vered Tzin & Dr. Elya Gelfand (coordinators)

C. Elective Courses within the Track of the Study:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-2006 Prof. Moshe Silberbush Mechanistic Approach to Plant Nutrition 2 Mon 09:15-11:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

001-2-2015 Prof. Dina Zilberg, Prof. Amit Gross Introduction to Aquaculture 3 Tue 08:30-11:00 Sede Boqer Biology 136 Exam

001-2-2025/6/7 Prof. Dina Zilberg Practical Fish Disease Diagnosis (A)/(B)/(C)

(Prerequisite: Theoretical fish diseases course)1

001-2-3036 Prof. Bertrand Boeken

Agroecology 3 Wed 08:30-11:00 Sede Boqer School 1 Oral Exam

001-2-2037 Prof. Moshe Sagi Guided Reading on Stress Sensing in Plants 2

001-2-2038 Prof. Naftali Lazarovitch

Soil Physics 3 Tue 14:15-17:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

001-2-2040* Prof. Gideon Grafi Lab Course in Epigenetics 4 Lab Report

001-2-2043 Prof. Shimon Rachmilevitch

Plant Stress Indications: Methods and Instrumentation

2 Final Term Paper

001-2-2046 Prof. Aaron Fait Analysis of Biological Networks 2.5 Wed 08:30-11:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

001-2-2056 Prof. Inna Khozin-Goldberg

Guided Reading on Advanced Topics in Plant and Microalgae Lipid Biochemistry

2 Guide reading coure - limited to two students

001-2-2066 Prof. Aaron Fait Metabolomics Laboratory 2 A report and present it as a short seminar

*The course constitutes of three sessions of field tour (around 4 h each, 12:00-15:00), which will take place during the fall semester, for collecting annual and perennial desert plants nearby the campus and processing the samples, that is nuclei preparation and fixation. These materials will be used during the one-week-lab course at the semester break for the analysis of epigenetic constraints employed by desert plants in their natural habitats. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the FALL semester.

A five-day intensive course offered during the FALL break,3-7.2.2019, 09:00-15:00, Agriculture Building, Room No. 32. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the FALL semester.A 3-day intensive workshop offered during the FALL break,18-20.2.2019, 8:30-17:00, Agriculture Building, Room 32. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the SPRING semester.

Contact the lecturer

Guided reading course - limited to two students

A five-day Intensive course offered in the FALL Break,10-14.2.2019, 09:00-14:00, Agriculture Building, Room 32. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the SPRING semester.

C. Elective Courses within the Track of the Study (Continueation):Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-2070Prof. Inna Khozin-Goldberg (Coordinator)

Biology and Biotechnology of Microalgae 3 Wed 13:15-16:00 Sede Boqer Biology 136 Exam

001-2-2289 Prof. Simon BarakGuided Reading on Molecular and Systems Biology Approaches to Plant Stress Tolerance Research

2

001-2-2290 Prof. Dina Zilberg Guided Reading on Aquatic Animal Health 2

001-2-4016 Dr. Leah Orlovsky Geography of Desertification 2 Sun 12:15-14:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar Room

Exam

D. General Courses:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-4029 Prof. Yosef Ashkenazy Introduction to Statistics and Probability 3 Wed 09:15-12:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar

RoomExam

001-2-7010 Dr. Menachem Sklarz

Hands-on Introduction to R: Programming, Graphing and Statistical Exploration 2 Thu 13:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Man in the

DrylandsComputer Room Final Term Paper

E. Courses Outside the Track of Study and Introductory Courses:Students are required to complete 2 credits either from other tracks of study or from the list of introductory courses below.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-1116 Prof. Evyatar Erell The Human Dimension--Living in the Drylands 3 Wed 09:15-12:00 Sede Boqer School 1 Final Term Paper

IRRIGATION AND PLANT ENVIRONMENTA. Courses within the Track of the Study:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-2006 Prof. Moshe Silberbush

Mechanistic Approach to Plant Nutrition 2 Mon 09:15-11:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper



Guided reading course- limited to two students


A. Courses within the Track of the Study (continuation):Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-2203 Dr. Gilboa Arye Adsorption and Reactivity of Chemicals in Soils 3 Mon 15:15-18:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Final Term Paper

B. Seminars and Thesis Writing -- Mandatory Courses:Students are required to attend Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room001-2-2222 Departmental Seminar A (first year)001-2-2224 Departmental Seminar B (first year)001-2-2223 Departmental Seminar A (second year)001-2-2225 Departmental Seminar B (second year)In the third and fourth semesters, students must register for Thesis Writing.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits

001-2-9991 --Thesis Writing A

6

001-2-9992 --Thesis Writing B

6

Students who have completed the above Thesis Writing courses and who continue their

Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits

001-2-1000 --Thesis Writing - Continuation

0

C. Elective Courses Within the Track of the Study:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-0022 Dr. Anat Bernstein Stable Isotope Application in Contaminant Hydrology

2 Tue 12:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room

Exam

001-2-2205 Dr. Ido Regev Modeling in the Earth and Plant Sciences 3 Wed 16:15-19:00 Sede Boqer Biology 136 Take Home Exam

001-2-3036 Prof. Bertrand Boeken

Agroecology 3 Wed 08:30-11:00 Sede Boqer School 1 Oral Exam

001-2-5029 Prof. Noam Weisbrod Rural Water Development 2 Sun 16:15-18:00 Sede Boqer Water

Inst.Seminar Room

Final Term Paper

0

Dr. Vered Tzin & Dr. Ilya Gelfand (Coordinators)

Sede Boqer

11:30-12:30 Seminar Room

Old Admin. Build.

Wed

studies for a fifth semester must register for the course.

C. Elective Courses Within the Track of the Study:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-5005 Prof. Amit Gross, Prof. Zeev Ronen Laboratory Methods for Environmental Studies 3 Final Term Paper



DrylandsComputer Room Final Term Paper

SOLAR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICSA. Mandatory Courses :Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-7004 Prof. Yair Zarmi Solution Methods in Mathematics 3 Final Project

B.Seminars and Thesis Writing -- Mandatory Courses:Students are required to attend Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room001-2-4444 Departmental Seminar A (first year)001-2-4454 Departmental Seminar B (first year)001-2-4464 Departmental Seminar A (second year)001-2-4474 Departmental Seminar B (second year)In the third and fourth semesters, students must register for Thesis Writing.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits



B.Seminars and Thesis Writing -- Mandatory Courses (Continuation):Students who have completed the above Thesis Writing courses and who continue theirstudies for a fifth semester must register for the course. Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits


Dr. Arik Yochelis and Dr. Roiy Sayage (Coordinators)

0.25 Tue 10:00-12:00

Flexible - according to the schedules of the students (at least 3 students)

Sede Boqer Physics Seminar Room

An eight-day intensive course offered during the FALL break 3-7.2.2019 and 10-12.2.2019, 08:30-15:30, Water Building, Seminar Room. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the SPRING semester.


001-2-0017 Dr. Roni Kasher Polymer Science and Polymeric Membranes 3 Mon 12:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room

Exam

001-2-4001 Prof. Daniel Feuermann Solar Energy 3 Tue 13:15-16:00 Sede Boqer Physics Library

RoomFinal Term Paper

001-2-4002 Prof. David Faiman Solar Energy and the Electrification of Remote Regions

3 Final Term Paper

001-2-4010 Prof. Georgy Burde Topics in Environmental Fluid Mechanics – A 3 Final Term Paper

001-2-4012 Prof. Isaak Rubinstein

Electro-Diffusion of Ions and Membrane Desalination Processes

3 Final Project

001-2-4013 Prof. Boris Zaltzman

Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics

3.5 Mon 09:15-13:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar Room

Exam


Exam

001-2-4019 Prof. Georgy Burde

Application of Symmetry Methods to Problems in Mathematical Physics

3 Final Term Paper

001-2-4022 Prof. Ehud Meron Pattern Formation and Spatial Ecology 3 Mon 13:15-16:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar Room

Final Term Paper

001-2-4024 Dr. Natalia Panov Satellite Image Processing 3 Tue 12:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Man in the Drylands

Computer Room Final Term Paper

001-2-4026 Prof. Yossi Ashkenazy Introduction to the Physics of Atmospheres 3 Wed 15:15-18:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar

RoomExam


RoomExam


Topics in Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics and Electrodiffusion (A)

2 Final Project


Topics in Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics and Electrodiffusion (B)

2 Final Project

Flexible - according to the schedules of the students






C. Elective Courses within the Track of the Study (Continuation):Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-4045 Prof. Eugene Katz Physics of Solar Cells 3 Sun 09:15-12:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar Room

Exam

001-2-4052 Dr. Muhammad Bashouti Fundamentals of Semiconductors 3 Wed 12:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar

RoomExam

001-2-4053 Dr. Avi Niv Thermodynamics of Radiating Systems and the Optics of Solar Cells

3 Thu 12:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Solar Seminar Room

Final Term Paper

001-2-7717 Prof. Yossi Ashkenazy Topics in Physical Oceanography (in Hebrew) 3.5

D. General Courses:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments



DrylandsComputer

Room Final Term Paper

E. Courses Outside the Track of Study and Introductory Courses:Students are required to complete 6 credits either from other tracks of study or from the list of introductory courses below.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments


ENVIRONMENTAL AND AQUATIC MICROBIOLOGYA. Mandatory Courses:Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

Biostatistics: ANOVA and Design of Experiments - Class

Tue 08:30-10:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32

Biostatistics: ANOVA and Design of Experiments - Exercise

Wed 11:15-13:00 Sede Boqer Man in the Drylands

Computer Room

001-2-3021 Dr. Itamar Giladi 3* Take-Home Exam

Intensive coruse: 11-16/11/2018. For more information and registration please refer to: http://www.iui-eilat.ac.il. The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat (IUI), P.O. Box 469 Eilat, 88103.

A. Mandatory Courses (Continuation):Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-5011 Prof. Zeev Ronen Environmental Microbiology 3 Sun 13:15-16:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room

Exam

001-2-5059 Dr. Osnat Gillor Water Microbiology 3 Thu 09:15-12:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room

Take-Home Exam

* 0 credits for students in the Ecology, Conservation and Management program

B. Seminars and Thesis Writing - Mandatory Courses:Students are required to attend Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room001-2-5555 Departmental Seminar A (first year)001-2-5557 Departmental Seminar B (first year)001-2-5556 Departmental Seminar A (second year)001-2-5558 Departmental Seminar B (second year)In the third and fourth semesters, students must register for Thesis Writing.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits



Students who have completed the above Thesis Writing courses and who continue their studies for a fifth semester must register for the course.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits


C. Elective Courses 1:

Students are required to complete at least 10 credits.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-0028 Dr. Yair Kauffman Intermolecular and Surface Forces 3 Tue 08:30-11:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room Exam

001-2-2015 Prof. Dina Zilberg, Prof. Amit Gross

Introduction to Aquaculture 3 Tue 08:30-11:00 Sede Boqer Biology 136 Exam

Sede BoqerWed 13:00-14:00Dr. Chris Arnusch (Coordinator)

Old Admin. Build.

This is a partial list. The stdudent is allowed to select other courses that are related to the area of his/her research with the approval of the

Seminar Room

0

C. Elective Courses 1 (Continuation):Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-2017 Prof. Simon Barak Plant Perception, Transduction and Response to Environmental Signals (limited to 10 students)

2 Thu 10:15-12:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Oral Presentation

001-2-2025/6/7 Prof. Dina Zilberg Practical Fish Disease Diagnosis (A)/(B)/(C)

(Prerequisite: Theoretical fish diseases course)1

001-2-2036 Prof. Gideon Grafi Molecular Biology and Epigenetics 2 Thu 08:30-10:00 Sede Boqer Biology 32 Take Home Exam



001-2-2040* Prof. Gideon Grafi Lab Course in Epigenetics 4 Lab Report

001-2-2290 Prof. Dina Zilberg Guided Reading on Aquatic Animal Health 2

001-2-5028 Prof. Moshe Herzberg

Microbial Biofilms in Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes (prerequisite: Introduction to Microbiology)


Seminar Room

Final Project

001-2-5029 Prof. Noam Weisbrod

Rural Water Development 2 Sun 16:15-18:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room

Final Term Paper

D. Elective Courses 2:

Students are required to complete at least 3 credits.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-0016 Dr. Roy Bernstein Physicochemical Technologies for Water Treatment

2 Mon 16:15-18:00 Sede Boqer Water Inst.

Seminar Room

Exam

001-2-4022 Prof. Ehud Meron Pattern Formation and Spatial Ecology 3 Mon 13:15-16:00 Sede Boqer Physics Seminar Room

Final Term Paper

This is a partial list. The stdudent is allowed to select other courses that are related to the area of his/her research with the approval of the superv

A five-day intensive course offered during the FALL break,3-7.2.2019, 09:00-15:00, Agriculture Building, Room No. 32. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the FALL semester.


*The course constitutes of three sessions of field tour (around 4 h each, 12:00-15:00), which will take place during the fall semester, for collecting annual and perennial desert plants nearby the campus and processing the samples, that is nuclei preparation and fixation. These materials will be used during the one-week-lab course at the semester break for the analysis of epigenetic constraints employed by desert plants in their natural habitats. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the FALL semester.

Contact the lecturer

D. Elective Courses 2 (Continuation):Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-5100 Dr. Genaddy Carmi Introduction to Surface Hydrology 2 Wed 08:30-10:00 Sede Boqer Water

Inst.Seminar Room

Exam


Hands-on Introduction to R: Programming, Graph 2 Thu 13:15-15:00 Sede Boqer Man in the Drylands

Computer Room

Final Term Paper

General Courses:Students are required to complete up to 4 credits.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments

001-2-0012 Prof. Daniel Ronen Selected Issues Related to Groundwater Hydrology: Quality & Quantity

2 Final Term Paper



Exam


RoomExam

001-2-7006 Dr. Shai Arnon Summarizing, Writing and Presenting Scientific Data


Computer Room Final Term Paper

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESCourse No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room Final Assignments


A. Mandatory Courses:

A four-day intensive workshop offered during the SUMMER break, 4-5.9.2019 and 18-19.9.2019-20.2.2019, 9:00-16:00. Course registration takes place during the registration period for the SUMMER semester.

B. Seminars and Thesis Writing - Mandatory CoursesStudents are required to attend Departmental Seminars (one seminar per semester).Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits Day Time Campus Building Room001-2-6999 Departmental Seminar A (first year)001-2-6998 Departmental Seminar B (first year)001-2-6997 Departmental Seminar A (second year)001-2-6996 Departmental Seminar B (second year)In the third and fourth semesters, students must register for Thesis Writing.Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits



Students who have completed the above Thesis Writing courses and who continue theirstudies for a fifth semester must register for the course. Course No. Lecturer Subject Credits



001-2-6004 Prof. Isaac Meir Desert Architecture from Antiquity to Modern Vernacular

4 Tue 08:30-12:00 Sede Boqer 48 2 Final Term Paper and Oral Presentation

001-2-6027 Dr. Moshe Schwartz

Guided Reading on Political Economy of Development Projects

2 Final Term Paper

001-2-6028 Dr. Yodan Rofe Research Seminar: Neighborhood and Settlement Patterns in the Negev Region

2 Mon 11:15-13:00 Sede Boqer 48 2 Final Term Paper

001-2-6029 Dr. Yodan Rofe The Sustainable City: City Planning and Urban Design

2 Mon 14:15-16:00 Sede Boqer 48 2 Final Term Paper

001-2-6151 Dr. Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder

Guided Reading in Gendering the Middle East 2018

2 Final Term PaperGuided reading course - limited to two students

Dr. Yodan Rofe (coordinator)

0 Tue 13:00-14:30 Sede Boqer 48


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