It depends on the university. As some others have mentioned it will probably come up with some depth in operating systems. It is kind of hard to avoid in OS. I

It depends on the university. As some others have mentioned it will probably come up with some depth in operating systems. It is kind of hard to avoid in OS. I don't think it's uncommon to have a course with a bit of a focus on this kind of stuff either. You might also hit it in a networking course, though it can be avoided there. Learning the basics on your own isn't too difficult though. Writing a single threaded web service, a forking web service, and a multi-threaded web service is a little project you can do. Ideally the processes would need to share memory or communicate with one another some way.