Madeleine Rose, Adjunct Lecturer of Sociology, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive experience working with older adults and their families. Her teaching areas include Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare, Family Systems, and Aging and Society. She has developed a unique service learning course, Group Work with Older Adults, in which students facilitate Intergenerational Dialogue groups at senior centers and retirement homes in the community.

Prior to teaching at SSU, she was a tenured faculty member of the Department of Social Work at California State University Long Beach. Exchanging freeways for redwoods, she became an Adjunct Professor at SSU in 1999. Her academic background includes a Master's Degree in Sociology and a Master's Degree and Doctorate in Social Welfare from UCLA. Dr. Rose worked for 12 years as a Research Associate for the Family Styles Project at UCLA, studying children raised in nontraditional families, including communes and single mothers-by-choice. While at UCLA she led the effort to establish the University Child Care Center.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

KATZ JOINS DEPARTMENT

C. WRIGHT MILLS AWARD APPLICATION 07-08