Specificity of Plans in SOP?

[MAbound]

Hi everyone,

I am applying this fall to Master's programs in Art History and am having some issues with my SOP. I have decided that I would like to study Byzantine art, but only reached this conclusion after I graduated. There is no professor who works in this area at my alma mater anyway so I couldn't have studied it formally if I had wanted to (I took a number of related courses in art history and Russian though). Having never studied it, I only have a general sense of what I want to study--the artistic exchange between Russia and Byzantium in relation to icons (no particular time period or artists//workshops). How specific do schools expect your project to be in this kind of situation? Any insight/advice would be much appreciated.

Edited October 29, 2011 by MAbound