Does a college course in computer programming allow one to work with web development?

Computer programming is a very large subject. Your introductory courses will no doubt be focused on general programming topics and not on Web development topics. If you are a beginning programmer this is a good thing. A good grounding in the basics is helpful. (I had 15 years experience as a programming hobbyist before I started).

As to available course offerings, you’d be better off checking your college’s catalog or asking your academic advisor or guidance department, or the CS department head, rather than asking us on Fluther. Since we don’t know what college you will attend we can’t comment on available courses.

Does web development involve a lot of things I will learn in computer programming? Or will I learn too many things with little relevance to web development?

Web development is a large field too- and flexible, at that.
In introductory classes, I doubt you’ll be taught anything that is irrelevant to it.

Some of it, like design patterns and other more abstract stuff, may seem that way at first; but I promise you’ll find them useful later.

@koanhead thanks for the answers

I think there is a course specifically on web development. Maybe you should go for that.

There probably are some courses on web development. Computer Science university courses on webdev usually focus more on the javascript & PHP/SQL backend stuff, which is relevant to the ecommerce aspect of websites. Most universities require you to have taken the intro & intermediate programming classes before they let you into webdev classes though (I call them the rite of passage classes). But if you’re soley interested in webdev then you might want to go to a technical trade school. Computer Science degrees usually require you to take some painful courses on Linear Algebra, Algorithms, finite State machines, Discrete Mathematics, Physics 2/electromagnetism, Compilers, Assembly, & Machine Structures, which are not worth taking if your just going to be doing web development. Ultimately, yes, as @koanhead said, the design patterns and some otherstuff will be useful later, but CompSci is probably not the best place to flesh out your web development skills.