The undergraduate secondary minor program consists of two phases. The first phase is completed on the Loyola Evergreen campus. The internship is fulfilled at a PDS site. Prior to the fall semester of the senior year the intern completes course work in the major field of study along with professional education course work . The internship is an intensive, two semester experience designed to complete the student's transition into teaching.
Students begin their internship either in the fall or spring of their junior year.
During the initial part experience, students complete seminars, readings, and fifty hours of classroom observation. The second part of the internship completed in the fall semester of the senior year, incorporates courses in methods of teaching and curriculum in the secondary school with teaching experience. This requires students to assume gradually all the teaching responsibilities of the mentor teacher.