BLACKSBURG, Va., June 14 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

This summer, Virginia Tech is launching a new undergraduate minor in artificial intelligence(AI) open to students in any major. It's designed to help them build AI skills and literacy they can apply to any field of study and to their careers after graduation.

Applications to join the minor program will open in August for all undergraduates. Incoming students can add some of the minor's classes to their schedules starting this month.

"Regardless of major, today's students are entering a workforce where AI will be part of nearly every profession," said Christine Julien, head of the Department of Computer Science. "Our goal is ...