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Monmouth University Partners With Six Flags To Offer Unique Students Experience

Class introduces students to the psychological theories and principles used to shape animal behaviors

Monmouth University students are getting a chance to be the first to participate in a new class that will bring them closer to some exotic animals. 

This spring, the West Long Branch university is offering a course at Six Flags Great Adventure called, Field Experience: Six Flags Wild Safari course.

The upper-level class introduces students to the psychological theories and principles used to shape animal behaviors and how these principles can be applied to their own career and life.

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The class is being offered for the first time this spring as part of a unique educational collaboration between Monmouth University and Six Flags Great Adventure.

In addition to class meetings, library research and journaling, students have supervised exposure to animals, including a 90-pound albino Burmese python, bottlenose dolphins, towering giraffes, African elephants and rhinoceros’. 

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