Need a Last Minute Gift? Give Online Courses Created by Cultural Icons Like Annie Leibovitz, Herbie Hancock, Werner Herzog and Many More

FYI: If you sign up for a Mas­ter­Class course by click­ing on the affil­i­ate links in this post, Open Cul­ture will receive a small fee that helps sup­port our oper­a­tion.

If you’re look­ing for a last minute gift for a thought­ful per­son in your life, here’s one option to con­sid­er. Mas­ter­Class lets you elec­tron­i­cal­ly pur­chase online courses and give them as gifts to fam­i­ly mem­bers and friends. For $90, you could give the gift of a sin­gle course. (The recip­i­ent gets to choose which par­tic­u­lar course they want to take.) Or, for $180, you can give the recip­i­ent a year-long pass to every course in the Mas­ter­Class cat­a­logue. You can get start­ed with the gift-giv­ing process here. And find a list of avail­able cours­es below.

• Annie Lei­bovitz Teach­es Pho­tog­ra­phy
• Gor­don Ram­say Teach­es Cook­ing
• Frank Gehry Teach­es Archi­tec­ture & Design
• Samuel Jack­son Teach­es Act­ing
• Judy Blume Teach­es Writ­ing
• Steve Mar­tin Teach­es Com­e­dy
• Jane Goodall Teach­es Con­ser­va­tion
• Her­bie Han­cock Teach­es Jazz
• Gar­ry Kas­parov Teach­es Chess
• Wern­er Her­zog Teach­es Film­mak­ing
• Aaron Sorkin Teach­es Screen­writ­ing
• David Mamet Teach­es Dra­mat­ic Writ­ing
• James Pat­ter­son Teach­es Writ­ing
• Hans Zim­mer Teach­es Film Scor­ing
• Thomas Keller Teach­es Cook­ing Tech­niques
• Stephen Cur­ry Teach­es Shoot­ing, Ball-Han­dling, Scor­ing
• Christi­na Aguil­era Teach­es Singing
• Deadmau5 Teach­es Elec­tron­ic Music Pro­duc­tion
• Shon­da Rhimes Teach­es Writ­ing for Tele­vi­sion
• Marc Jacobs Teach­es Fash­ion Design
• Ush­er Teach­es the Art of Per­for­mance
• Ser­e­na Williams Teach­es Ten­nis
• Reba McEn­tire Teach­es Coun­try Music

See the full cat­a­log here.

Note: Mas­ter­Classs and Open Cul­ture have a part­ner­ship. If you sign up for a Mas­ter­Class course, it ben­e­fits not just you and Mas­ter­Class. It ben­e­fits Open Cul­ture too. So con­sid­er it win-win-win.

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