Homosexual Course

ITHACA, N.Y.--Cornell will offer a six-week course on homosexuality this summer, marking the first time the university has given a class devoted exclusively to homosexuality.

The anthropology department and women's studies program are jointly offering the course, entitled "Western Conceptions of Homosexuality." The course, according to the originator, graduate student David Wilson Kraft, will show that sexuality is, in itself, a cultural construction, and he said he plans to explore some of the confusion which surrounds homosexuality.

Although the course begins with the ancient Greeks, Kraft said. "You cannot presume that homosexuality was the same kind of phenomenon we have today." The course focuses on the western perspective, but other cultures are used to illustrate different reactions to homosexuality. The Cornell Daily Sun reported recently.