I would assume that you would need this exact skill set if you wanted to be a software engineer for Cubase, ProTools, etc or if you wanted to write plugins for them.
In effect the course would be teaching programming with an audio theme. I thought it would be a clever way for people interested in audio to learn coding/programming which is obviously a lot more encompassing than just writing plug-ins for Pro Tools (and can be used for other things other than audio). The entire cell phone industry utilizes these skills for example.
Anything involving cell phones is the first example that comes to mind.