There's classes for many many things at Stanford as there are at many other schools. Internet technologies etc happen to be among them and they happen to be of

There's classes for many many things at Stanford as there are at many other schools. Internet technologies etc happen to be among them and they happen to be offered under the CS department (which is probably the most appropriate one). The CS193x change from year to year I think, I remember there was a CS193j (programming in java) at one point but it seems to be gone now. They are not required courses for the CS degree. IIRC I don't think they can even count toward any of the CS degree requirements themselves. You do get credit for them though and you need a certain number of credits to graduate regardless of major. So basically you take them if you're interested in them and would prefer to learn about them in a classroom environment.