If your aim is to do some less demanding programming, e.g. using a framework without fully understanding how things all work together, then focusing more on practical projects could definitely help. However, this dichotomy between "CS" and "SWE" is a very dangerous idea. Once you have a solid grounding in CS, the software you write will be of much higher quality, you'll ship code faster, and you'll avoid many mistakes since you have a clear idea of what you're doing instead of just trying to blindly copy recipes.

Particularly helpful I would say is a solid idea in programming language theory and I can't recommend the MOOC by Dan Grossman from the University of Washington highly enough. As he said, even if you never get to program in the languages used throughout the course, you will become a much better programmer after finishing the course.