Undergrad Programs

I have the ability to take course work for free (Military funded) from undergrad certifications to a masters degree.  I don't think I have the patience to acquire a masters, or even a bachelors degree in software engineering or computer science, so I'm looking at various undergraduate programs in the field.  I'm not looking for a job in the field, yet anyways.  I figure its a free way to get my feet wet in programming.  No I do not expect to become an EXPERT PROGRAMMER by taking on these courses.

My dillemma is that I can't find any undergrad programs designed around C or C++, most of them contain optional courses in the subjects though.  All of them contain at least some java (which, while I'm not against learning, I dislike java), and most of them are centered and based on java programming. 

TL;DR, Is it beneficial to learn java, when considering other practical languages?

When learning Java you learn the basics of OO programming (although not all the features, although there isn't any language I know of which will let you learn all the features of OO programming).

I probably would try to get a language like C in there too, though, so you can see procedural programming and pointers and memory.

Still, once you learn those two types (I learned C and Java myself), it is pretty easy to learn another language just through books/documents/etc.

BTW, LEARN BBCODE AND READ ONLY SICP.