Sounds like your going to have a great time with your friend. And thats a great price for a class too. My favorite classes has always been the ones where my friends were there also.
When your first starting out, every beginner handgun class is teaching the same stuff. Safety, presentation, sights, grip, trigger, reloads, malfunction clearing, and lots of repetition. Honestly theres probably a guy teaching the same class within an hour of where ever you live. For example, I took a 8 hr $40 beginner class from my local club and we covered all the areas I just mentioned.
The group of guys I shoot with have taken handgun classes from Gunsite, Frontsight, Suarez, and Roger Phillips. All these schools are in the same area around Vegas. They said Roger Phillips is a step above Suarez and that Suarez was a step above Gunsite and Frontsight. Based on their recommendation I skipped Gunsite and Frontsight and took several handgun classes from Suarez that took me from beginner through intermediate. Then I moved onto Roger Phillips for the advanced skills. They were right about Roger Phillips being on another level. I learned some extremely advanced skills from him. Moving and shooting, ambidextrous, moving and shooting ambidextrous, night fighting, force on force, force on force at night. I would like to see how far I can take this. Just not sure where to go next. Roger has a Tom Sotis knife vs gun class coming up. I guess I will take that one because its the next one. After that, who knows.