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Many students completing the MA Option continue futures-oriented academic work at the Ph.D. level in the UH Department of Political Science. So too, students from other futures programs (such as the Study of the Future program at the University of Houston, Clear Lake) and various academic disciplines, come to the University of Hawaii for doctoral level work in futures-oriented political science. Other PhD candidates not only in Political Science but also in many other disciplines choose to include futures studies as one of their fields of academic competence on their doctoral examinations. The authors and titles of recent future-oriented PhD dissertations from the UH Political Science Department include: --Greg Aanestad (December 1993) "The Bust Generation: A Cohort Analysis" --Henry T. K. Au (May 1984) "Alternative Futures of Hong Kong" --Boonrak Boonyaketmala (May 1984) "The Political Economy of Political Dominance/ Dependency/ Disengagement: The Transnational Film Industry of Thailand" --Robin Brandt (May 1996) "Futures of Work & Disabilities: Policies and Scenarios" --Mitchell Cabral (May 1997) "Vision Tao of Humanity" --Tim Dolan (May 1991) "Political Life Cycles: Service as a Rite of Passage to Adult Citizenship" --Bruce Etherington (May 1984) "Self-Reliant Settlements: Using Human Resources for Housing the Poor" --Debora Halbert (May 1996) "Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age" --Osamu Hara (December 1996) "Futures of North Korea: Its Structural Constraints and Alternatives" --Sohail Inayatullah (May 1990) "Understand P. R. Sakar: Epistemic Boundaries, Critical Commentaries, and Comparative Analyses" --Jon Jonassen (May 1996) "Alternative Futures of the Cook Islands" --Chris Jones (December 1989) "Gaia Futures: An Emerging Mythology and Politics of the Earth" --Kenn Kassman (December 1994) "Envisioning a New America: The Worldview, Praxis Orientations, and Futuristic Visions of Three Subcultures Within the American Green Movement" --Mike Ogden (December 1993) "Islands in the Net: Technology and Development Futures in Pacific Island Microstates" --Deacon Ritterbush (May 1993) "Sometimes the 'Native' Knows Best" --Christa Slaton, (May 1990) "Televote: Expanding Citizen Participation in the Quantum Age" --Wendy Schultz (August 1993) "Futures Visioning" --Don Weller (May 1971) "Rock Music: Political Implications" PhD students currently writing future-oriented dissertations include: --Tom Brandt on an alternative economic future for Hawaii --Jan Huston on evolutionary systems theory --Devin Nordberg on the political implications of nanotechnology --Kazuomi Shiozawa on the implications of distance education on Japanese educational systems --James White, on telecommunications systems in Asia