Integration of academic disciplines in meaningful units is a priority among ISM faculty members. Currently the elementary grades (PK-5) have at least two interdisciplinary units a year, one per semester. Secondary grade teachers have developed a four-year cycle of interdisciplinary units: 

•  Year one: hydrocarbons and energy

•  Year two: water

•  Year three: poverty

•  Year four: globalization

The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman
Illicit by Moisés Naím
The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization by Wayne Ellwood, and The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs.

Some essential questions to be answered by students through their study of globalization are:

•  What is globalization? What is its history?

•  What are the costs/benefits of globalization?

•  Who benefits the most?

•  How does it affect Venezuela?

•  Is globalization the same as Westernization?

•  Is all participation in illicit trafficking wrong? Why or why not?

•  How can illicit trafficking best be controlled and reduced?

•  Do free markets cause economic growth? Do they help reduce poverty?

•  What is a “good global citizen”?

•  What is a “good global system”?