Computer science isn't supposed to teach you how to program, and it's kind of silly to judge a whole subject by the first year. In fact I think you would be making a mistake to focus on the practical courses rather than take as many theoretical and foundational (e.g. advanced algorithms, Theory of Computation, Compilers) courses as you can. A good CS student, who understands the coursework and doesn't cheat, should easily become a good enough programmer just from completing coursework in a mostly theoretical program to get hired basically anywhere. Programming is something you learn incidentally because it's intertwined with what you're doing anyway; and to be blunt, most practical programming is rather mundane and simple compared to a rigorous CS curriculum.
I see it as like if I were hiring for something as generic as "writer". It's easy to have a generic "writer" produce a small sample for you on the spot, similar to a CS interview. Of course you can always practice writing directly itself, but I would imagine someone who had completed a lot of coursework in linguistics, classics, literature, etc. would on average be very well-prepared if they were a good student. But you could still practice and teach yourself on your own if you wanted to