I found C very enjoyable and extrmely useful. I frequently write C programs. Depending on the structure of the course an intro C might not be that bad. Obvious differences C uses stdio.h and does not have classes -but everything you do in a class can be done in a struct (except inhertiance). I also discovered that my upper level course all required C to complete assignments and not C++ (I graduated 4 years ago this might have changed).

Post above very similiar -beat me to it by a few moments -butr I'm still going to leave it.