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Taking a course or two in it is a good idea EXCEPT in either disciplines the foundational courses can be very un-exciting, mathematical, hard to be motivated for. Discouraging. I would suggest instead to look for a slightly more advanced (in the overall curriculum) course that would be more practical. That course may be on youtube. You will be missing some of the theory foundation - but you know what - the foundation may not be needed to get the gist of what the discipline does.

For example, most people who learn build their first programs in a programing language do so without the theoretical foundation of what even is a language, what are grammars, or the whole menagerie of basic data structures.

Less discouraging, more inspiring.

Yet another alternative, is hunting through youtube for presentations or documentaries which explain what a certain job title does all day, what their work feels like, what they feel they achieve. Or books (essential book for "selling" EE digital hardware design was The Soul of a New Machine).