[tjr]

Some sort of class on embedded programming. Lots of software development jobs are for embedded programming, which is in many ways a world apart from web applications. Things like avionics software, automotive software, medical device software...

Recently the JPL C coding standards were posted around the web, as people showed a bit of interest in the software running the recent Mars robot. Discussing that sort of thing could be interesting course material.

I don't know of any curriculum off hand, but maybe make it some sort of project-based course where students design and build real-time applications on some sort of real-time Linux system?