51-610 Design Fusion: Comics, Cybernetics and Dynamics of Change

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Explore the art of comics, cartooning and graphic novels in conjunction with the science of cybernetics—the transdisciplinary study of communications and control systems. Discover how visual storytelling, continuous feedback loops and behavioral economics can help people, individually and collectively, become agents of change in pursuit of goodness, beauty and truth. This course is centered on the hands-on creation of sequential art in various forms and formats. There is no pre-req for drawing skills or any other artistic aptitude. Likewise, no prior experience with any software applications necessary.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2027, Spring 2026

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