Michigan State University now offers students a minor in video games.

Beginning next month, the school will offer the Specialization in Game Design and Development program to teach future video game designers.

The program is offered as an academic minor, offering 15 credit hours for a four-course sequence of classes on video game design, as well as game history and social aspects.

Michigan State has offered several of the courses before, but this is the first time they have been packaged into one program.

Brian Winn, the program's co-founder, says the two-year program will be offered to 80 students at first, but could eventually expand.