There is growing interest in teaching Pd as a programming platform in University-level courses.

The first course of record is taught by Koray Tahiroglu at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki . It is a follow up course to an introductory workshop, covering a wide range of topics in Pd.

Composing with Pure Data II

Hans-Christoph Steiner is currently developing an undergrad class at Polytechnic University with the aim of teaching Digital Media students advanced methods of interfacing with humans using Pd.

InterfaceDesignAdvancedStudio

PedroLopes is currently at Hasso Plattner Institut and teaches a class on Dataflow Programming and Signal Processing with Pure Data, on Prof. Patrick Baudisch's Human Computer Interaction class #2.

This is the first sketch for a Pd-specific programming class

GraphicalDataflowProgramming

Related Courses

Here are the syllabi of some Pd and Max/MSP classes which might be of some use:

Miller Puckette's Computer Music I @ CRCA/UCSD

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/syllabi/171.04w/

Miller Puckette's Computer Music II @ CRCA/UCSD

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/syllabi/172.05s/

ELEN E4896 Music Signal Processing @ Electrical Engineering - Columbia University

http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/e4896/code.html

Josh Goldberg's Vision and Sound with Max @ Parsons

http://www.goldbergs.com/max/parsons/#Anchor-schedule-11481

Dan Palkowski's Digital Audio Synthesis Techniques/MIDI @ ITP/NYU

http://itp.nyu.edu/~dhp1/syllabi/syll2frameset.htm

Luke DuBois?'s Computer Music Synthesis @ Music Tech/NYU

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~rd64/

Musical Communication and Music Technology @ Speech, Music and Hearing Dept, Royal Technical College, Sweden

http://www.speech.kth.se/courses/1213/

Koray Tahiroglu's Physical Interaction Design @ VCD Istanbul Bilgi University

Hans-Christoph Steiner's Physical Interaction Design @ Integrated Digital Media Institute, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York

Koray Tahiroglu's Computer Generated Music @ Music Department of Istanbul Bilgi University

Tom Erbe's "Music 172. Computer Music ll" @ UCSD's Department of Music

http://music.ucsd.edu/~tre/

Bill Verplank, Michael Gurevich, Max Mathews and Sook Young Won's "Music 250 - Physical Interaction Design for Music" @ CCRMA Stanford University

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/courses/250a/

Adrian Moore and Dave Moore's "Creative Applications of Music Technology" @ University of Sheffield Sound Studios

http://www.shef.ac.uk/usss/ugstudy

Dave Moore's "Intermediate Digital Studio" @ University of Sheffield Sound Studios

http://www.shef.ac.uk/usss/pgstudy/ma/ids.html

Dave Moore's "Advanced Digital Studio" @ University of Sheffield Sound Studios

http://www.shef.ac.uk/usss/pgstudy/ma/ads.html

Adrian Moore's "Introduction to Studio Techniques" @ University of Sheffield Sound Studios

http://www.shef.ac.uk/usss/ugstudy

Hans-Christoph Steiner's "Dataflow Audio Programming" @ Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University

http://itp.nyu.edu/dataflow/

Other Dataflow Languages

It might be useful to touch on other dataflow languages in order to compare the structures and how each one is organized. Here is a list of relevant dataflow languages, many of which are limited in terms of languages.

Labview

Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench

Max/MSP

Pd's sister language

VEE

Sanscript

Dataflow language article http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/2/3/1688/50511