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This thesis report documents the design and production of an audiovisual program for the Industrial, Interior, and Packaging Design Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. The curriculum structure, beginning with the freshman year and ending with the senior year, was examined in this program. The faculty and students were portrayed within their multi-faceted classroom environment. Additional ly, this program was designed to give prospective students an overall view of each design field. Attention was directed towards capturing the challenging activities that design students encounter during their educational experience.

This investigation focused on (1) transactions between the readers and the novels they had chosen, (2) the readers' purposes and processes, (3) and the contexts, experiential and socio-cultural, that influence these readers in their construction of meaning. The questions guiding this study included: (1) how do participants make meaning while reading narrative fiction, (2) in what ways do blueprint texts of narrative fiction influence meaning making, (3) in what ways do personal experiences influence meaning making, and (4) in what ways do socio-cultural issues influence meaning making.