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 (or Greek), and collaborate with others under the supervision of professional classicists. You will receive credit on the site for all contributions.
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.
Dates: June 22–July 31, 2026 (6 weeks)
Time commitment: approximately 10 hours per week. The projects will involve a mix of independent work done on your schedule and mandatory Zoom meetings for approximately four hours per week.
Pay: this is an unpaid internship
Projects for 2026:
- Catullus: edit notes and vocabulary on poem 64, add hyperlinks and media enhancements for this and other Catullus poems
- Ilias Latina: edit notes and vocabulary on this Latin version of the Iliad, add hyperlinks and media enhancements
- Core vocabulary images: create original artwork for words in the DCC Latin Core Vocabulary to help people remember them
- Anthon Greek Reader: read and edit notes and vocabulary for an introductory reader for learners of ancient Greek, add hyperlinks and media enhancements
- Caesar, Gallic War Book 2: read and edit notes, add hyperlinks and media enhancements
- Augustine, Confessions: read and edit notes and vocabulary, add hyperlinks and media enhancements
- Vergil, Aeneid: read and edit notes and vocabulary, add hyperlinks and media enhancements
- Use AI to harvest and reformat notes from older commentaries on Trimalchio’s Dinner Party (Petronius, Satyricon) and possibly other texts
Application Deadline: March 15, 2026
Apply here: https://forms.office.com/r/CYrvfkA2c5