Here's the situation. In my item.php I use the following to call up a module in the body:

<h2>Current Courses</h2>

<?php $module = JModuleHelper::getModules('faculty-courses');
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule($module[0]); ?>

However, there are times where there the data within that module is actually blank, and if that's the case I'd like to use an "if" statement to hide the <h2> heading just before that module.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi. This has nothing to do with K2. It has to do with the way Joomla! renders modules. Read docs.joomla.org/Customising_the_way_modules_are_displayed to learn about module chromes. Then you will be able to apply an if statement for the module title.