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Mass Communication Chair

Associate Professor Mass Communication / Graphic Design


Office : S408
Phone: 815-740-5064
Email: trosner@stfrancis.edu

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Education
After receiving 4 years of academic scholarship, Ms. Layng Rosner earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Northern Illinois University in 1983. She then was awarded 3 years of Graduate Teaching Assistantships while earning her terminal degree, a Master of Fine Arts in Computer Art/Printmaking, from NIU in 1986.
Teaching
Immediately after graduating, Layng Rosner accepted a position as Coordinator of Graphic Communication at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, IL. At PSC, she developed a new curriculum and degree program in Graphic Communication, as well as developing their entire Computer Graphics Lab environment in 1988. She worked with students to exhibit their work in competitions and contests. Later, she developed a similar curriculum program and lab in Digital Design and Graphics at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, IL in 1998. Two of her students earned special honors by winning the 1996 Why-Me national poster contest for Breast Cancer Research and exhibiting in the SIGGRAPH International Traveling Student Show in 1997. She has continued to freelance as a graphic designer and web designer for various institutions throughout her tenure as an educator.
Professional

Terre has been a professional working artist throughout her career in higher education and has exhibited in juried shows both nationally and regionally She is represented by galleries in New York's SoHo district and regionally in the Oak Park area. Her artistic representation extends to on-line galleries at art-mine.com and the Oil Pastel Association (allart.com).

Professor Layng Rosner enjoys using digital tools to create graphic communication for print publication and the WWW. She is developing classes at USF in Web publishing, steaming media as well as, computer animations. Her fine art work encompasses a mixed media technique using digital backgrounds with mathematical accuracy to natural figures with flowing lines combined t produce a feeling of tranquil tension.
Current Projects

Show in Agora Galler in SoHo New York.

Currently developing a textbook in conjunction with Dr. Jackie Layng, University of Toledo entitled Media Design communication Technologies. (Due out summer 2002)

Developing new curriculum in Media Arts, Web Design communication for the Mass communication Department.