Should we still be learning this?

[Max]

On monday I start a semester course in Python (the alternative was 
Java). I was looking through the course outline and noticed the following:

1) UserDict is used. This is deprecated, right?
2) There is no mention of list comprehensions, but map and filter are 
taught early and then revisited later. I don't think this is good: list 
comprehensions are, IMO, one of Python's great features, Psyco prefers 
them, they're more pythonic, and map and filter seem to be going out the 
window for Python 3000.

What do you think?

--Max