What sort of topics would be covered in a...

[TheOneOmega]

...Networks course in Computer Science education?

I realize this may be a stretch in terms of the getting to the intended purpose of this subforum, but I have to take the course this fall and know nothing about networking, nor have any clue what to expect.

[Fail Whale]

normaly network courses cover the same main topcs.
OSI Model
DNS
Routing
classfull subnetting
CIDR/VLSM subnetting
Topologys (ethernet, Token ring, star etc)
Network hardware and different uses.
Standard port numbers for common protocols
basic firewall and security
contents of a packet/frame
encryption stadards
inner workings of ethernet and tcp/ip stack