Smithtown HS Graduate Rachel Werner Gets Up Close and Personal With Giraffes

Rachel WernerFirst-Ever Higher Education Collaboration Between Monmouth University and Six Flags Wild Safari Offers Students Unique Learning Experience

If you think Six Flags is just a place where you can go and have fun it is time to think again.  Monmouth University has a program available to its students that allows them to get up close and personal with the animals at Six Flags Wild Safari.

Monmouth University student Rachel Werner from Smithtown, N.Y. interacts with towering giraffes during her 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. It 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, African elephants and rhinoceros’.