TO: 1201 Interns
FROM: XLIX Management Team
DATE: August 19, 2019
SUBJECT: Cultural Awareness
At the start of your internship you were asked to develop a memo to your manager (i.e. Expectations
Memo) to address fourspecific questions. Since you developed that memo, much has changed about you,
your mindset and approach to learning. We expect much has also changed in your awareness of the world
around you. You have also developed an appreciation for some of the differences between your former
roles and the role you now have. Your supervisor and manager are interested in your impressions of
yourself and others at this point, and how that has changed since you started. Please write a welldeveloped, two-page memo (MS Word) to your manager and supervisor that answers the questions
below.
As a growing XLIX Student Intern you are an active partner in your education process. You should be aware of
your own ability to see yourself from the “outside looking in,” and to appreciate others from the same
“outside looking in” point of view. Please address each question below with a well-developed and thoughtful
paragraph response.
Introductory paragraph addressing the purpose of the Memo.
Describe your ability to see yourself from the “outside looking in.”
Describe your ability to appreciate others from the “outside looking in.”
Revisiting the weekly Reflective Writing Assignments that you completed throughout the
semester, examine and illustrate your awareness of how culture and experiences have shaped
your own predispositions, values, expectations, and capacitiesfor how you view the world
around you. Provide specific examples for each.
Revisiting the weekly Reflective Writing Assignments that you completed throughout the
semester, examine and illustrate your openness to others points of view by identifying and
explaining a minimum of three examples from your interactions with others, in or out of class.
Thoughtfully reflecting, identify and explain the specific aspects of the Reflective Writing
Assignments that have helped you to develop a broader understanding of the culture in which
you live, and the academic path that you have chosen.
See the Written Assignment Submittal Policy for all document formatting requirements.
