I have the same problem bazokas had. They force you to take a Visual Basic (could it get any worse?!) course before you can take any other programming course, except if you get "Departmental Approval" Well, guess what? There is no such thing...you have to take the course no matter how much you know about any other programming languages. It sucks real bad.
And to answer the original question, no I don't own Visual C++. I use Borland. At least they got that much right!