I believe lots of courses still teach C-esque C++ first, starting with "three kinds of memory: stack, heap, global", then adding classes, followed by templates, and finally getting into STL.

Here is an example MIT course from 2011, it introduces C-style arrays and C-style strings in lecture 4, pointers in lecture 5, and classes in lecture 6: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-096-introduction-to-c-january-... (although memory management is postponed)

Another MIT course from 2014 explicitly starts with C, but it has "C and C++" in its name: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-s096-effective-programming-in-...