Dickinson College Commentaries (DCC) provides Latin and Greek texts for reading, with explanatory notes, essays, vocabulary, and graphic, video, and audio elements. The commentaries are peer reviewed and edited, and freely available at dcc.dickinson.edu.
The DCC High School Online Internship program is meant to give you a chance to contribute to the site, learn digital humanities skills, improve your Latin, and collaborate with others under the supervision of professional classicists. You will receive credit on the site for all contributions.
Statue of founder Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), in front of the East College building. East College is home to Dickinson’s Classical Studies Department and is the mother ship of DCC.
The projects are flexible enough to allow students of different levels of Latin, from intermediate to advanced, to meaningfully participate, and to give scope to those with special artistic, technical, linguistic, or research skills. The application process is simple and requires no essay or letters of recommendation.
Eligibility: Open to all rising High School Juniors and Seniors who have completed Latin 3. Graduating seniors may also apply.
Dates: June 23–Aug 1, 2025 (6 weeks)
Time commitment: 10–15 hours per week. The projects will involve a mix of independent work done on your schedule and mandatory Zoom meetings for approximately five hours per week.
Pay: this is an unpaid internship
Projects for 2025:
- Select, edit, and enhance notes on Vergil’s Aeneid
- Create images and other enhancements for the DCC Core Latin Vocabulary
- Edit and enhance notes for Aesop’s Fables in the Latin version of Elegiac Romulus.
Application Deadline: Feb. 15, 2025.
Apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/sWvT11BXt7