The course given by Dr. Sagi Ben-Ami, from the Smithsonian Observatory, at IAG, from Dec 9-13,  was a great success, with the participation of 11 regular or special Astronomy students. Dr. Ben-Ami gave several examples of important sky imaging and spectroscopic surveys and he taught what are the important parameters to consider in the planning of surveys, including a detailed study of the statistics source detections and hands-on classes using Zemax. The material produced for the course will be available in the SPANET site shortly.