My major would not be what it is without the excellent opportunities for study abroad offered by St. Olaf College. 
My international travel had a fundamental effect on the creation of my major. I knew from the outset that I wanted to incorporate an element of international studies into the major, and St. Olaf's International and Off-Campus Studies program gave me that opportunity. I spent three terms abroad at Olaf, a month-long interim in England for a Theatre in London class as well as two semesters abroad: fall and interim junior year I traveled to Switzerland, France, Egypt, India, Thailand, China, and South Korea through the Global Semester program. Fall of Senior year I lived in Cairo, Egypt and attended classes at the American University in Cairo.
Travel gave me the opportunity to study global ethical systems firsthand in order to understand a variety of nuances I wouldn't have been able to learn back in the States. I could not appreciate the deep respect given to Allah (God) as creator and sustainer of all things in Islam until hearing the myriad ways God is invoked in daily conversation in Egypt. I would not be able to fully understand the societal duties of the kshatriya (warrior) without living in a village outside Bangalore, India and seeing how engrained the caste system (a fourfold division of society, in which kshatriyas occupy the second place) is yet today with my own eyes. Living within the cultures whose ethical systems I studied enabled me to learn each culture's cosmology and ethical terminology as they dealt with any moral dilemmas.