Studious screen star James Franco has signed up to teach classes at Yale University.

A UCLA graduate, who has previously studied filmmaking at New York University and earned a master of fine arts diploma from Columbia University, Franco will begin studying at Connecticut’s prestigious Ivy League institution in September, where he’ll obtain his doctorate in English and film studies.

But the Spider-Man star will have more than just his own course load to focus on; he’s agreed to teach his own “very special class” at the facility next January.

“I am going to teach at Yale. It’s in the works. I have a very special class I will be teaching next January,” the actor revealed during an appearance on Good Morning America Friday.