Provided you have a good sculpture teacher this course couldn't be anything but beneficial to your development as an artist. I'd personally take the sculpture course over the life drawing class. Also, I've known people from sculpture backgrounds get character artist jobs without any zbrush experience.
I'm not great at it but I think sculpture helps a lot. Being able to touch your work makes it easier to learn. A tip I can share is that you should work on the bigger forms first and proceed with smaller ones once you are satisfied... You probably knew that ;) ...and don't give up if you don't like one type of material. I…
I never took a sculpture class, I do recommend playing with sculpey. One of my projects involved me drawing a scary creature head, making it with Super Sculpey, and then recreating it with Max and Mudbox. I got through the last part fast because my brain was already familiar with the dimensions. I think the tactile aspect…