[elg0nz]

On that vein. I think the two most important subjects on a CS degree should be Software Architecture and Parallel Programming.

I suggest PP since there is no Scalability 101 that I know of, and PP really shows you limitations of current processors and how to get around them -If you understand replication and queuing at processor level you can implement them at "Enterprise" level".

Neither of those are new subjects, and although you can learn both of them "on the go" (Just ask the Twitter guys if they thought of database replication and sharding on day one) they will save you lots of time and money.