Sheafe Satterthwaite, a landscape
historian, explores in his courses a
wide swath of (mainly North
American) environments, ranging
from innermost cities to wilderness
(itself a human artifact with costumes
and regulations and conceptualizing?). A major focus of these courses is the spatial
or visual impress of the constituent elements designed and re-designed by human action, be they road or lawn or dwelling, and the evolution or layering of these forms. Professor Satterthwaite "cycles" through seventeen courses, only a few of which are listed in the college catalogue (delimited to two- or three-year swaths of time). Some of these courses feature weekly field sessions, stressing interviews, and have enrollment limits mandated by van capacities. Other courses with larger enrollments will have only one mandatory all-day field session or several field sessions (with classmembers divided between them).